Help QuickNav Adv. Options
AMP

AMP

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H3608 - kele'

Choose a new font size and typeface
כֶּלֶא
Transliteration
kele'
Pronunciation
keh'-leh
Listen
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 22:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:27 - and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this man in prison, and feed him sparingly with the bread and water until I return safely.”’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4 - But the king of Assyria discovered a conspiracy in Hoshea, who sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year; therefore the king of Assyria arrested him and bound him in prison.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 -

Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and released him from prison;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:29 - Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes [for palace garments] and he dined regularly in the king’s presence for the remainder of his life;

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:26 - and say, ‘Thus says the king: “Put this man in prison and feed him just enough bread and water to survive until I return in peace (safely).”’”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:7 -

To open the eyes of the blind,

To bring out prisoners from the dungeon

And those who sit in darkness from the prison.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22 -

But this is a people despoiled and plundered;

All of them are trapped in holes,

Or are hidden away in prisons.

They have become a prey with no one to rescue them,

And a spoil, with no one to say, “Give them back!”

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:15 - The princes were enraged with Jeremiah and beat him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe—for they had made that the prison.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:18 - Moreover, Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “In what way have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:33 - Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table all the days of his life.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
AMP
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
AMP
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan