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kele: Prison, confinement, enclosure

Original Word: כֶּלֶא
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: kele'
Pronunciation: keh'-leh
Phonetic Spelling: (keh'-leh)
KJV: prison
NASB: prison, prisons
Word Origin: [from H3607 (כָּלָא - shut)]

1. a prison

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
prison

From kala'; a prison -- prison. Compare kil'ayim, kliy'.

see HEBREW kala'

see HEBREW kil'ayim

see HEBREW kliy'

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from kala
Definition
confinement, restraint, imprisonment
NASB Translation
prison (2), prison* (7), prisons (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
כֶּ֫לֶא noun [masculine] confinement, restraint, imprisonment; — absolute ׳כ 1 Kings 22:27 6t.; 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 2Chronicles 18:26; 2 Kings 17:4; Jeremiah 37:15,18; Isaiah 42:7; בָּֽתֵּי כְלָאִים Isaiah 42:22 (compare בַּיִת

1 (ε) (2) p. 109 above; see also כלוא below); בִּנְדֵי כִלְאוֺ 2 Kings 25:29 = Jeremiah 52:33 garments of imprisonment = prison-garb.

Forms and Transliterations
הַכֶּ֑לֶא הַכֶּֽלֶא׃ הכלא הכלא׃ כְלָאִ֖ים כִלְא֑וֹ כֶּ֖לֶא כֶּֽלֶא׃ כלא כלא׃ כלאו כלאים chelaIm chilO hak·ke·le hakkele ḵə·lā·’îm ke·le ḵəlā’îm kele ḵil’ōw ḵil·’ōw
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Englishman's Concordance
1 Kings 22:27
HEB: זֶ֖ה בֵּ֣ית הַכֶּ֑לֶא וְהַאֲכִילֻ֨הוּ לֶ֤חֶם
INT: this court prison and feed bread

2 Kings 17:4
HEB: וַיַּאַסְרֵ֖הוּ בֵּ֥ית כֶּֽלֶא׃
INT: and bound court prison

2 Kings 25:27
HEB: יְהוּדָ֖ה מִבֵּ֥ית כֶּֽלֶא׃
INT: of Judah court prison

2 Kings 25:29
HEB: אֵ֖ת בִּגְדֵ֣י כִלְא֑וֹ וְאָכַ֨ל לֶ֧חֶם
NAS: Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes
KJV: And changed his prison garments:
INT: changed clothes his prison and had his meals

2 Chronicles 18:26
HEB: זֶ֖ה בֵּ֣ית הַכֶּ֑לֶא וְהַאֲכִלֻ֜הוּ לֶ֤חֶם
INT: this court prison and feed bread

Isaiah 42:7
HEB: אַסִּ֔יר מִבֵּ֥ית כֶּ֖לֶא יֹ֥שְׁבֵי חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃
KJV: in darkness out of the prison house.
INT: prisoners house of the prison dwell darkness

Isaiah 42:22
HEB: כֻּלָּ֔ם וּבְבָתֵּ֥י כְלָאִ֖ים הָחְבָּ֑אוּ הָי֤וּ
NAS: Or are hidden away in prisons; They have become
KJV: and they are hid in prison houses:
INT: All houses prisons are hidden have become

Jeremiah 37:15
HEB: עָשׂ֖וּ לְבֵ֥ית הַכֶּֽלֶא׃
KJV: for they had made that the prison.
INT: had made the house the prison

Jeremiah 37:18
HEB: אֶל־ בֵּ֥ית הַכֶּֽלֶא׃
INT: about court prison

Jeremiah 52:33
HEB: אֵ֖ת בִּגְדֵ֣י כִלְא֑וֹ וְאָכַ֨ל לֶ֧חֶם
NAS: So Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes,
KJV: And changed his prison garments:
INT: and changed clothes his prison and had his meals

10 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 3608
10 Occurrences


ḵə·lā·’îm — 1 Occ.
ḵil·’ōw — 2 Occ.
hak·ke·le — 4 Occ.
ke·le — 3 Occ.

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