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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Prison

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

90exact KJV occurrences 47Old Testament 43New Testament 17books containing the word 16mapped Strong's IDs 90occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

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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LAST OCCURRENCE

Revelation 20:7

And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where prison appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

GreekG5438
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.

Strong's first: Matthew 5:25Strong's last: Revelation 20:7

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HebrewH1004
בַּיִת

bayith · bah'-yith

16 times translated as this KJV form2,046 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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).

Strong's first: Genesis 39:20Strong's last: Jeremiah 52:31

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HebrewH4307
מַטָּרָא

maṭṭârâʼ · mat-taw-raw'

13 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences

n-f

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

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GreekG1201
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

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HebrewH4525
מַסְגֵּר

maçgêr · mas-gare'

3 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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

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GreekG1200
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

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GreekG3612
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

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GreekG5084
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.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Acts 5:18Strong's last: Acts 5:18

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HebrewH612
אֵסוּר

ʼêçûwr · ay-soor'

1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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

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HebrewH4929
מִשְׁמָר

mishmâr · mish-mawr'

1 times translated as this KJV form22 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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.

Strong's first: Genesis 42:19Strong's last: Genesis 42:19

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HebrewH6495
פְּקַח־קוֹחַ

pᵉqach-qôwach · pek-akh-ko'-akh

1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences

n-m

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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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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90 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.

Matthew 14:3
G5438

For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.

Matthew 18:30
G5438

And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.

Matthew 25:36
G5438

Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

Matthew 25:39
G5438

Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee?

Matthew 25:43
G5438

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Matthew 25:44
G5438

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

Mark 1:14
G3860

Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,

Mark 6:17
G5438

For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.

Mark 6:27
G5438

And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

Luke 3:20
G5438

Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

Luke 12:58
G5438

When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give diligence that thou mayest be delivered from him; lest he hale thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and the officer cast thee into prison.

Luke 22:33
G5438

And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.

Luke 23:19
G5438

(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)

Luke 23:25
G5438

And he released unto them him that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, whom they had desired; but he delivered Jesus to their will.

Acts 5:18
G5084

And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.

Acts 5:19
G5438

But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said,

Acts 5:21
G1201

And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

Acts 5:22
G5438

But when the officers came, and found them not in the prison, they returned, and told,

Acts 5:23
G1201

Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

Acts 5:25
G5438

Then came one and told them, saying, Behold, the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple, and teaching the people.

Acts 8:3
G5438

As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

Acts 12:4
G5438

And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

Acts 12:5
G5438

Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

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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