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
The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
H4307
For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.
H4307
So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
H4307
And I gave the evidence of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hanameel mine uncle's son, and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribed the book of the purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the prison.
H4307
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
H1004
Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people: for they had not put him into prison.
H612
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
H3608
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
H1004
Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?
H4307
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
H4307
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
H4307
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
H4307
So they drew up Jeremiah with cords, and took him up out of the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
H4307
So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
H4307
Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.
H4307
Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
H1004
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
H1004
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 Evilmerodach 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,
H3608
And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.
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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