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Lexicon :: Strong's H3608 - kele'

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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 tell Joas the king's son to put this fellow in prison, and to feed him with bread of affliction and water of affliction until I return in peace.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4 - And the king of the Assyrians found iniquity in Osee, in that he sent messengers to Segor king of Egypt, and brought not a tribute to the king of the Assyrians in that year: and the king of the Assyrians besieged him, and bound him in the prison-house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 - And it came to pass in the thirty-seventh year of the carrying away of Joachim king of Juda, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, that Evialmarodec king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Joachim king of Juda, and brought him out of his prison-house.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:29 - and changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days of his life.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:26 - and ye shall say, Thus said the king, Put this fellow into the prison-house, and let him eat the bread of affliction, and drink the water of affliction, until I return in peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:7 - to open the eyes of the blind, to bring the bound and them that sit in darkness out of bonds and the prison-house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22 - And I beheld, and the people were spoiled and plundered: for there is a snare in the secret chambers everywhere, and in the houses also, where they have hidden them: they became a spoil, and there was no one that delivered the prey, and there was none who said, Restore.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:15 - (LXX 44:15) And the princes were very angry with Jeremias, and smote him, and sent him into the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made this a prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:18 - (LXX 44:18) And Jeremias said to the king, Wherein have I wronged thee, or thy servants, or this people, that thou puttest me in prison?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:33 - and changed his prison garments: and he ate bread continually before him all the days that he lived.
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