2 Kings 17:4:212 Kgs.17.4.W21TAB
כֶּֽלֶא׃
kele
“prison”
- Transliteration
- KE-le
- Extended
- KEH-leh
- IPA
- /ˈkɛ.lɛʔ/
Meaning by language
- English
- prison
Hebrew · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Kaf | k with dagesh; kh without | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Lamed | l as in law | |
| Seghol | short 'eh' as in met | |
| Aleph | silent — a glottal stop; holds vowel points |
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Word in context
- word
KE-le
- phraseyour reading level
BET KE-le
- clause
va-ya-tsre-HU ME-lekh a-SHUR va-ya-as-re-HU BET KE-le
- sentence
va-yim-TSA ME-lekh-a-SHUR be-ho-SHE-a KE-sher a-SHER sha-LAKH mal-e-KHIM el-so ME-lekh-mits-RA-yim ve-lo-he-e-LA min-KHA le-ME-lekh a-SHUR ke-sha-NA ve-sha-NA va-ya-tsre-HU ME-lekh a-SHUR va-ya-as-re-HU BET KE-le
Exegesis
Finally, the successive imperatives vayyaʿaṣrehu {וַיַּעְצְרֵ֙הוּ֙ | wayya·ʿaṣre-hû} and vayyaʾasrehu {וַיַּאַסְרֵ֖הוּ | wayya·ʾasre-hû} intensify the king’s response from arrest to imprisonment, culminating in the location beit kele {בֵּ֥ית כֶּֽלֶא | bêyt ke·lēʾ} ‘house of prison.’
Root and etymology
k-l-ʼ
“to imprison”
In context — 2 Kings 17:4
But the king of Assyria discovered a conspiracy in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and had not brought tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. So the king of Assyria restrained him and imprisoned him in a house of confinement.
About this coordinate
2 Kings 17:4:21 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 21 of 2 Kings 17:4, so the Hebrew word כֶּֽלֶא׃ (kele) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 2 Kgs.17.4.W21, which extends further down to each syllable (2 Kgs.17.4.W21.S1) and character.