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# כֶּלֶא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3608

**confinement** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

confinement [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3608/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כֶּ֫לֶא: confinement, restraint, imprisonment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3608/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] confinement, restraint, imprisonment;—abs. כ׳ 1 K 22:27 + 6 times; sf. כִּלְאוֹ 2 K 25:29; Je 52:33; pl. כְּלָאִים Is 42:22;—confinement, in combin. בֵּית (ה)כ׳ (cf. Assyrian bît kīli, prison, Dl HWB 328) 1 K 22:27 = 2 Ch 18:26, 2 K 17:4; Je 37:15, 18; Is 42:7; בָּֽתֵּי כְלָאִים v 22 (cf. בַּיִת 1 (ε) (2) p. 109 supr.; v. also כלוא infr.); בִּנְדֵי כִלְאוֹ 2 K 25:29 = Je 52:33 garments of imprisonment = prison-garb.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: imprisonment (4); of imprisonment (3); his imprisonment (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 42:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.42.7/#tree)

לִפְקֹ֖חַ עֵינַ֣יִם עִוְר֑וֹת לְהוֹצִ֤יא מִמַּסְגֵּר֙ אַסִּ֔יר מִבֵּ֥ית כֶּ֖לֶא יֹ֥שְׁבֵי חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃

*Word for word:* to open eyes blind to bring.out from prison prisoner\[s\] from a.house of.imprisonment \[those.who\].dwell of.darkness

*JPS 1917:* To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.

[2 Kings 25:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.29/#tree)

וְשִׁנָּ֕א אֵ֖ת בִּגְדֵ֣י כִלְא֑וֹ וְאָכַ֨ל לֶ֧חֶם תָּמִ֛יד לְפָנָ֖יו כָּל־יְמֵ֥י חַיָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.changed (et) the.clothes his.imprisonment his and he.ate bread continually before him all the.days his.life his

*JPS 1917:* And he changed his prison garments, and did eat bread before him continually all the days of his life.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3608.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3608/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).