Genesis 39:20
And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
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Prison
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Revelation 20:7
And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
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φυλακή
phylakḗ · foo-lak-ay'
33 times translated as this KJV form50 total Strong's occurrences
a guarding or (concretely, guard), the act, the person; figuratively, the place, the condition, or (specially), the time (as a division of day or night), literally or figuratively
Strong's KJV usage: :--cage, hold, (im-)prison(-ment), ward, watch.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 5:25Strong's last: Revelation 20:7
Open full G5438 profile →בַּיִת
bayith · bah'-yith
16 times translated as this KJV form2,046 total Strong's occurrences
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, × great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter) house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 39:20Strong's last: Jeremiah 52:31
Open full H1004 profile →מַטָּרָא
maṭṭârâʼ · mat-taw-raw'
13 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
a jail (as a guard-house); also an aim (as being closely watched)
Strong's KJV usage: mark, prison.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Nehemiah 3:25Strong's last: Jeremiah 39:15
Open full H4307 profile →כֶּלֶא
keleʼ · keh'-leh
5 times translated as this KJV form5 total Strong's occurrences
a prison
Strong's KJV usage: prison. Compare 3610, 3628.
Strong's first: 2 Kings 25:29Strong's last: Jeremiah 52:33
Open full H3608 profile →δεσμωτήριον
desmōtḗrion · des-mo-tay'-ree-on
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a place of bondage, i.e. a dungeon
Strong's KJV usage: :--prison.
Strong's first: Matthew 11:2Strong's last: Acts 16:26
Open full G1201 profile →אָסַר
ʼâçar · aw-sar'
4 times translated as this KJV form73 total Strong's occurrences
to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle
Strong's KJV usage: bind, fast, gird, harness, hold, keep, make ready, order, prepare, prison(-er), put in bonds, set in array, tie.
Strong's first: Genesis 42:16Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 4:14
Open full H631 profile →מַסְגֵּר
maçgêr · mas-gare'
3 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a fastener, i.e. (of a person) a smith, (of a thing) a prison
Strong's KJV usage: prison, smith.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 142:7Strong's last: Isaiah 42:7
Open full H4525 profile →δεσμοφύλαξ
desmophýlax · des-mof-oo'-lax
2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a jailer (as guarding the prisoners)
Strong's KJV usage: :--jailor, keeper of the prison.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Acts 16:27Strong's last: Acts 16:36
Open full G1200 profile →παραδίδωμι
paradídōmi · par-ad-id'-o-mee
2 times translated as this KJV form135 total Strong's occurrences
to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit
Strong's KJV usage: :--betray, bring forth, cast, commit, deliver (up), give (over, up), hazard, put in prison, recommend.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 4:12Strong's last: Mark 1:14
Open full G3860 profile →מַהְפֶּכֶת
mahpeketh · mah-peh'-keth
2 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
a wrench, i.e. the stocks
Strong's KJV usage: prison, stocks.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 16:10Strong's last: Jeremiah 29:26
Open full H4115 profile →οἴκημα
oíkēma · oy'-kay-mah
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
a tenement, i.e. (specially), a jail
Strong's KJV usage: :--prison.
Strong's first: Acts 12:7Strong's last: Acts 12:7
Open full G3612 profile →τήρησις
tḗrēsis · tay'-ray-sis
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a watching, i.e. (figuratively) observance, or (concretely) a prison
Strong's KJV usage: :--hold.
Strong's first: Acts 5:18Strong's last: Acts 5:18
Open full G5084 profile →אֵסוּר
ʼêçûwr · ay-soor'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a bond (especially manacles of a prisoner)
Strong's KJV usage: band, prison.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Jeremiah 37:15Strong's last: Jeremiah 37:15
Open full H612 profile →מִשְׁמָר
mishmâr · mish-mawr'
1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences
a guard (the man, the post or the prison); a deposit (figuratively); also (as observed) a usage (abstractly), or an example (concretely)
Strong's KJV usage: diligence, guard, office, prison, ward, watch.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 42:19Strong's last: Genesis 42:19
Open full H4929 profile →עֹצֶר
ʻôtser · o'-tser
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
closure; also constraint
Strong's KJV usage: × barren, oppression, × prison.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 53:8Strong's last: Isaiah 53:8
Open full H6115 profile →פְּקַח־קוֹחַ
pᵉqach-qôwach · pek-akh-ko'-akh
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
opening (of a dungeon), i.e. jail-delivery (figuratively, salvation for sin)
Strong's KJV usage: opening of the prison.
Strong's first: Isaiah 61:1Strong's last: Isaiah 61:1
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H4115
Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
H1004
And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.
English meaning and historical usage.
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prison
PRISON, noun priz'n. [Latin prendo.]
1. In a general sense, any place of confinement or involuntary restraint; but appropriately, a public building for the confinement or safe custody of debtors and criminals committed by process of law; a jail. Originally, a prison as Lord Coke observes, was only a place of safe custody; but it is now employed as a place of punishment. We have state-prisons, for the confinement of criminals by way of punishment.
2. Any place of confinement or restraint.
The tyrant Aeolus,
With power imperial curbs the struggling winds,
And sounding tempests in dark prisons binds.
3. In Scripture, a low, obscure, afflicted condition. Ecclesiastes 4:14.
4. The cave where David was confined. Psalms 142:7.
5. A state of spiritual bondage. Isaiah 42:7.
PRIS'ON, verb transitive To shut up in a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
1. To confine in any manner.
2. To captivate; to enchain.
[This word is proper, but imprison is more commonly used.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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