Strong’s H3608 · Hebrew

כֶּלֶא
keleʼ
keh'-leh

Definition

a prison

Etymology

from H3607 (כָּלָא);

Word family

How the KJV renders it

  • prison. Compare H3610 (כִּלְאַיִם)
  • H3628 (כְּלִיא)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.