כְּלִיא
keli · prison
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3628 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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keli (כְּלִיא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “prison”.
"house of confinement": the jail.
How to say it
ke·li
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.
Where it appears
- Jeremiah 37:4
Now Jeremiah was coming in and going out among the people, and they had not put him in the prison.
- Jeremiah 52:31
And it happened, in year thirty-seven of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.