The meaning of “כֶּלֶא”
Understanding keleʼ reveals the original theological depth often simplified in translation.
prison. Compare כִּלְאַיִם, כְּלִיא. - a prison 1) imprisonment, confinement, restraint
כֶּלֶא
prison. Compare כִּלְאַיִם, כְּלִיא. - a prison 1) imprisonment, confinement, restraint
Occurrences in the Bible
| Reference | Text | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 Kings 25:29 | “And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.” Word: כֶּלֶא (keleʼ) | |
| Isaiah 42:7 | “To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.” Word: כֶּלֶא (keleʼ) | |
| Isaiah 42:22 | “But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.” Word: כֶּלֶא (keleʼ) | |
| Jeremiah 37:15 | “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.” Word: כֶּלֶא (keleʼ) | |
| Jeremiah 52:33 | “And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life.” Word: כֶּלֶא (keleʼ) |
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