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.