ke.le denotes confinement in a prison setting, including being put there, held there, or brought out from it.

The occurrences consistently denote prison confinement: people are put into custody, held in a prison house, brought out from it, or identified by garments associated with imprisonment. The plural form in Isaiah 42:22 occurs of houses of prison, while the construct forms occur with garments in 2 Kings 25:29 and Jeremiah 52:33.

1. Prison confinement and its setting · dominant

   The noun occurs where a king orders a man placed in custody in 1 Kings 22:27 and 2 Chronicles 18:26, where Jeremiah is put into a converted prison in Jeremiah 37:15, and where he asks why he has been put in prison in Jeremiah 37:18. In 2 Kings 25:27 the APB renders the clause as Jehoiachin being lifted up "from the prison house," and Isaiah 42:7 depicts bringing a prisoner out from "the house of prison."

   1 Kings 22:272 Chronicles 18:262 Kings 25:27Isaiah 42:7Jeremiah 37:15Jeremiah 37:18

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB uses expressions such as "prison house," "house of prison," "imprisoned," and "prison garments." These are presentations of the surrounding clauses rather than fixed one-to-one renderings.