'Prisoners' in the Bible

So Joseph’s master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined; so he was there in the prison.

The warden committed to Joseph’s care (management) all the prisoners who were in the prison; so that whatever was done there, he was in charge of it.

Now therefore, hear me and return the captives whom you have captured from your brothers (fellow descendants of Israel, i.e. Jacob), for the burning anger of the Lord is against you.”

“There the prisoners rest together;They do not hear the taskmaster’s voice.

God makes a home for the lonely;He leads the prisoners into prosperity,Only the stubborn and rebellious dwell in a parched land.

For the Lord hears the needyAnd does not despise His who are prisoners.

Who executes justice for the oppressed,Who gives food to the hungry.The Lord sets free the prisoners.

Nothing remains but to crouch among the captivesOr fall [dead] among the slain [on the battlefield].In spite of all this, God’s anger does not turn away,But His hand is still stretched out [in judgment].

Who made the world like a wildernessAnd overthrew its cities,Who did not permit his prisoners to return home?’

They will be gathered togetherAs prisoners [are gathered] in a dungeon;They will be shut up in prison,And after many days they will be visited and punished.

To open the eyes of the blind,To bring out prisoners from the dungeonAnd those who sit in darkness from the prison.

Then the captain of the guard took [as prisoners] Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three doorkeepers.

To trample and crush under His feetAll the prisoners of the land,

“They all come for violence;Their horde of faces moves [eagerly] forward,They gather prisoners like sand.

Return to the stronghold [of security and prosperity], O prisoners who have the hope;Even today I am declaring that I will restore double [your former prosperity] to you [as firstborn among nations].

But after ordering them to step out of the Council [chamber], they began to confer among themselves,

Then the captain went with the officers and brought them back, without hurting them (because they were afraid of the people, worried that they might be stoned).

But about midnight when Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

When the jailer, shaken out of sleep, saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had escaped.

The officers reported this message to the chief magistrates, and when they heard that the prisoners were Romans, they were frightened;

Now when it was determined that we (including Luke) would sail for Italy, they turned Paul and some other prisoners over to a centurion of the Augustan Regiment named Julius.

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would dive overboard and swim [to land] and escape;

When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself [in rented quarters] with the soldier who was guarding him.