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Lexicon :: Strong's H3608 - kele'

Aa
כֶּלֶא
Transliteration
kele'
Pronunciation
keh'-leh
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 980a

Strong’s Definitions

כֶּלֶא keleʼ, keh'-leh; from H3607; a prison:—prison. Compare H3610, H3628.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's H3608 in the following manner: prison (10x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's H3608 in the following manner: prison (10x).

  1. imprisonment, confinement, restraint

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
כֶּלֶא keleʼ, keh'-leh; from H3607; a prison:—prison. Compare H3610, H3628.
STRONGS H3608: Abbreviations
† כֶּ֫לֶא noun [masculine] confinement, restraint, imprisonment; — absolute כ׳ 1 Kings 22:27 6 times; suffix כִּלְאוֺ 2 Kings 25:29; Jeremiah 52:33; plural כְּלָאִים Isaiah 42:22; — confinement, in combination בֵּית (ה)כ׳ (compare Assyrian bit kili, prison, DlHWB 328) 1 Kings 22:27 2 Chronicles 18:26; 2 Kings 17:4; Jeremiah 37:15, 18; Isaiah 42:7; בָּֽתֵּי כְלָאִים Isaiah 42:22 (compare H1004 בַּיִת 1 (ε) (2); see also כלוא below); בִּנְדֵי כִלְאוֺ 2 Kings 25:29 = Jeremiah 52:33 garments of imprisonment = prison-garb.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

1 Kings

22:27; 22:27

2 Kings

17:4; 25:29; 25:29

2 Chronicles

18:26

Isaiah

42:7; 42:22; 42:22

Jeremiah

37:15; 37:18; 52:33; 52:33

H3608

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3608 matches the Hebrew כֶּלֶא (kele'),
which occurs 10 times in 10 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:27 - And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4 - But Hoshea's broken faith became clear to the king of Assyria because he had sent representatives to So, king of Egypt, and did not send his offering to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: so the king of Assyria had him shut up in prison and put in chains.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 - And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year of his rule, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:29 - And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:26 - And say, By the king's order this man is to be put in prison, and given prison food till I come back in peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:7 - To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22 - But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:15 - And the rulers were angry with Jeremiah, and gave him blows and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:18 - Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, What has been my sin against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:33 - And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.
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