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# כְּלוּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3628

**prison** — used 2 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

prison [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3628/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כלוא: id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3628/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** Qr כְּלִיא Kt n.\[m.\] id.;—בֵּית הַכּ׳ Je 37:4; 52:31 (v. כֶּלֶא supr.)

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 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 (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 37:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.37.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.37.4/#tree)

וְיִרְמְיָ֕הוּ בָּ֥א וְיֹצֵ֖א בְּת֣וֹךְ הָעָ֑ם וְלֹֽא־נָתְנ֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ בֵּ֥ית הַכְּלֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and Jeremiah \[was\].coming and.\[was\] going.out among the people and not they.had.put him the.house of.(the) imprisonment

*JPS 1917:* Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.

[Jeremiah 52:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.52.31/#tree)

וַיְהִי֩ בִשְׁלֹשִׁ֨ים וָשֶׁ֜בַע שָׁנָ֗ה לְגָלוּת֙ יְהוֹיָכִ֣ן מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֔ה בִּשְׁנֵ֤ים עָשָׂר֙ חֹ֔דֶשׁ בְּעֶשְׂרִ֥ים וַחֲמִשָּׁ֖ה לַחֹ֑דֶשׁ נָשָׂ֡א אֱוִ֣יל מְרֹדַךְ֩ אֱוִ֣יל מְרֹדַךְ֩ מֶ֨לֶךְ בָּבֶ֜ל בִּשְׁנַ֣ת מַלְכֻת֗וֹ אֶת־רֹאשׁ֙ יְהוֹיָכִ֣ין מֶֽלֶךְ־יְהוּדָ֔ה וַיֹּצֵ֥א אוֹת֖וֹ מִבֵּ֥ית הַכְּלֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and it.was in thirty and seven year of the.exile of.Jehoiachin the.king of.Judah in two.plus ten month on.\[day\] twenty and five of the month he.lifted.up Evil-Merodach Evil-Merodach the.king of.Babylon in the.year his.kingdom his (et) the.head of.Jehoiachin the.king of.Judah and he.brought.out him from the.house of.(the) imprisonment

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3628.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3628/): 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).