Words the Bible translates as prison
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 9 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- phulakēφυλακήprison: a place where people are held under guard
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- a watch of the night: one of the set stretches into which the night was divided
- the act of keeping watch: standing guard over something
- pequddahפְּקֻדָּהa visitation: God's decisive coming to deal with a person or people, most often to punish and sometimes to help
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- oversight: a charge or office entrusted to someone, with responsibility to answer for it
- a mustering: the counting of people and the numbered company it produces
- a store: goods laid up or set in reserve
- mishmarמִשְׁמָרa keeping: guarding given concrete shape, whether as custody, a watch, or an observed charge
- mattarahמַטָּרָהthe guard: the palace watch station, which gave its name both to the courtyard where prisoners were kept and to a city gate
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- a target: the mark something is aimed at and shot at
- desmōtērionδεσμωτήριονprisonnot studied yet
- keleכֶּלֶאprison: the confinement of a person who is shut up and held, or the place where they are held
- soharסֹהַרprison: the guarded royal lockup in Egypt where Joseph and the king's other prisoners were held
- masgerמַסְגֵּרa prison: a place where someone is shut in and cannot get out unaided
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- a smith: a skilled metalworker, named in the exile lists among the workers carried off from Jerusalem to Babylon
- keliכְּלִיאprisonnot studied yet
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