כְּלִיא
kᵉlîyʼ · H3628 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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prison
Place where criminals or other prisoners were confined
ExamplesJeremiah 37:4 Now Jeremiah was still coming and going among the people, for they had not yet put him in prison.
Jeremiah 52:31 Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year 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 first year of his reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- סֹהַר çôhar · H5470 · prison
- Both words denote a prison or jail.
- מַהְפֶּכֶת mahpeketh · H4115 · stocks, prison
- Both words denote places or instruments of confinement, כְּלִיא (kᵉlîyʼ, H3628) “prison” and מַהְפֶּכֶת (mahpeketh, H4115) “prison, stocks,” and could refer to the same confinement contexts.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Prisons001003002006
- This lexeme denotes a prison or place of confinement, an alternate form of the more common כֶּלֶא (keleʼ, H3608), so it belongs to the domain of institutions of imprisonment.
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3628. keli or kelu
or kelu
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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