כֶּלֶאkeleʼ
confinement, restraint, imprisonment (1 Kings 22:27; 2 Kings 25:29; Jeremiah 52:33; Isaiah 42:22; 2 Chronicles 18:26)
Pronunciation: keh'-leh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3608
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- 1 Kings 22:27 Give them this order from the king: ‘Put this man in prison, and feed him nothing but bread and water until I return safely from the battle!’”
- 2 Kings 17:4 But Hoshea stopped paying the annual tribute and conspired against the king of Assyria by asking King So of Egypt to help him shake free of Assyria’s power. When the king of Assyria discovered this treachery, he seized Hoshea and put him in prison.
- 2 Kings 25:27 In the thirty-seventh year of the exile of King Jehoiachin of Judah, Evil-merodach ascended to the Babylonian throne. He was kind to Jehoiachin and released him from prison on April 2 of that year.
- 2 Kings 25:29 He supplied Jehoiachin with new clothes to replace his prison garb and allowed him to dine in the king’s presence for the rest of his life.
- 2 Chronicles 18:26 Give them this order from the king: ‘Put this man in prison, and feed him nothing but bread and water until I return safely from the battle!’”
- Isaiah 42:7 You will open the eyes of the blind. You will free the captives from prison, releasing those who sit in dark dungeons.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).