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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 Box 1Ki 22:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:27 - and say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with scant fare of bread and water, until I come in peace."'"

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:4 - But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshe'a; for he had 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 shut him up, and bound him in prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:27 - And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoi'achin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, Evil-mero'dach king of Babylon, in the year that he began to reign, graciously freed Jehoi'achin king of Judah from prison;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 25:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:29 - So Jehoi'achin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king's table;

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:26 - and say, 'Thus says the king, Put this fellow in prison, and feed him with scant fare of bread and water, until I return in peace.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:7 - to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22 - But this is a people robbed and plundered, they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become a prey with none to rescue, a spoil with none to say, "Restore!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:15 - And the princes were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 37:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 37:18 - Jeremiah also said to King Zedeki'ah, "What wrong have I done to you or your servants or this people, that you have put me in prison?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 52:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:33 - So Jehoi'achin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king's table;
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