kele · prison

What it means

kele (כֶּלֶא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “prison”.

Confinement: a place where someone is held.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A place where the accused or condemned are shut in.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×3

• 1 Kings 22:27

  and say, ‘Thus says the king: Put this man in the house of the prison, and feed him bread of oppression and water of oppression, until I come in peace.’”

• 2 Kings 17:4

  But the king of Assyria found in Hoshea a conspiracy, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and had not brought up tribute to the king of Assyria as he had done year by year; so the king of Assyria detained him and bound him in prison.

• 2 Kings 25:27

  And it happened, in year thirty-seven of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-seventh of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison.

• 2 Kings 25:29

  He changed the clothes of his prison, and he ate bread always before him all the days of his life.

• 2 Chronicles 18:26

  and say, ‘Thus says the king: Put this man in the house of the prison, and feed him bread of oppression and water of oppression, until I return in peace.’”

• Isaiah 42:7

  to open blind eyes, to bring out from confinement the prisoner, from the prison house those who dwell in darkness.

• Isaiah 42:22

  But this is a people plundered and despoiled; all of them are trapped in the holes, and in houses of prison they are hidden; they have become plunder, and there is no one to deliver; spoil, and there is no one to say, “Give it back!”

• Jeremiah 37:15

  And the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and they struck him and put him in the house of imprisonment, in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they had made it into the prison.

• Jeremiah 37:18

  And Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “What sin have I committed against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in the prison?

• Jeremiah 52:33

  He changed the clothes of his prison, and he ate bread before him always all the days of his life.