Strong’s H3628 · Hebrew

כְּלִיא
kᵉlîyʼ
kel-ee'

Definition

a prison

Etymology

or כְּלוּא; from H3627 (כְּלִי) (compare H3608 (כֶּלֶא));

Word family

How the KJV renders it

  • prison

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.