כֶּלֶא (keleʾ) is a Hebrew noun meaning confinement. It appears 10 times in 5 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3608).
כֶּ֫לֶא noun, masculine: confinement, restraint, imprisonment, prison, garments of imprisonment
confinement, restraint, imprisonment; suffix כִּלְאוֹ; plural כְלָאִים;—confinement, בָּֽתֵּי כְלָאִים; בִּגְדֵי כִלְאוֹ = garments of imprisonment = prison garb.
Strong's H3608 כֶּלֶא: a prison
KJV:prison. Compare H3610, H3628.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 980: כָּלָא kālāʾ — shut up, restrain, withhold, hinder, protect; restrict, hold back, in, prohibit; finish, forbid, keep, refrain, retain, be stayed
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