Word Study · Strong's H3628 · Hebrew
כְּלִיא
keli
kel-ee'
Strong's 1890 spelling: kᵉlîyʼ
“a prison”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a prison
Rendered in the KJV as
prison.
- 2occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 1inflected formdistinct spellings
Across 2 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 1
- הַכְּלֽוּא׃2
How it is rendered · 1
- the imprisonment2
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular2
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- HTd/Ncmsa · 2
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Jeremiah2 occurrences
- Jeremiah 37:4הַכְּלֽוּא׃hakeli'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularNow Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison.here: the imprisonment
- Jeremiah 52:31הַכְּלֽוּא׃hakeli'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singularOn the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the first year of the reign of Evil-merodach king of Babylon, he pardoned Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison.here: the imprisonment