Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3608
כֶּלֶא
kelekeh'-leh
prison
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: keleʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3608is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3608
a prison
The King James renders it: prison. Compare H3610 (כִּלְאַיִם), H3628 (כְּלִיא).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kele is rendered "prison". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Three of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 22:27and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
1 Kings 22:27הַכֶּ֑לֶא
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's ten uses are in 2 Kings.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the imprisonment4
- imprisonment3
- imprisonment his2
- imprisonments1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַכֶּ֑לֶא2
- הַכֶּֽלֶא׃2
- כֶּֽלֶא׃2
- כִלְא֑וֹ2
- כֶּ֖לֶא1
- כְלָאִ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular4HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
1 Kings
one use
and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
- הַכֶּ֑לֶאhakele'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the imprisonment
2 Kings
three uses
But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.
- כֶּֽלֶא׃kele'noun · masculine singulartagged: imprisonment
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he released King Jehoiachin of Judah from prison.
- כֶּֽלֶא׃kele'noun · masculine singulartagged: imprisonment
So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.
- כִלְא֑וֹkhilonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: imprisonment his
2 Chronicles
one use
and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
- הַכֶּ֑לֶאhakele'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the imprisonment
Isaiah
two uses
to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
- כֶּ֖לֶאkele'noun · masculine singulartagged: imprisonment
But this is a people plundered and looted, all trapped in caves or imprisoned in dungeons. They have become plunder with no one to rescue them, and loot with no one to say, “Send them back!”
- כְלָאִ֖יםkhelaimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: imprisonments
Jeremiah
three uses
The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
- הַכֶּֽלֶא׃hakele'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the imprisonment
Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?
- הַכֶּֽלֶא׃hakele'the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the imprisonment
So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.
- כִלְא֑וֹkhilonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: imprisonment his
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.