Reference: Dungeon
Easton
different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison (Ac 16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern (Jer 38:6). To be shut up in, a punishment common in Egypt (Ge 39:20; 40:3; 41:10; 42:19). It is not mentioned, however, in the law of Moses as a mode of punishment. Under the later kings imprisonment was frequently used as a punishment (2Ch 16:10; Jer 20:2; 32:2; 33:1; 37:15), and it was customary after the Exile (Mt 11:2; Lu 3:20; Ac 5:18,21; Mt 18:30).
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And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound; and he was there in the prison.
And he put them in prison in the house of the captain of the guard, into the house of the prison where Joseph was bound.
Pharaoh was angry with his slaves and put me in the prison of the captain of the guard's house, both me and the prince of the bakers.
If ye are men of the truth, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison; go ye, carry food for the famine of your houses
Then Asa was wroth with the seer and put him in the prison house, for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa killed some of the people at the same time.
Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were at the gate of Benjamin on the high place, which is in the house of the LORD.
for then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah's house.
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
Therefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah and smote him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.
Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.
Now when John had heard in the prison the works of the Christ, he sent two of his disciples,
And he would not, but went and cast him into prison until he should pay the debt.
and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.
And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning and taught. In the meantime, the prince of the priests came, and those that were with him, and called the council together and all the elders of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.
who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Morish
Pit used for water, but sometimes dry and used as a prison. Joseph called his prison a dungeon, though perhaps it was not a pit. Ge 40:15; 41:14. Jeremiah was put into a pit, and he sank in the mire. Jer 38:6-13; La 3:53,55.
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for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews; neither have I done anything here that they should put me into the prison.
Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon; and they cut his hair and changed his clothes, and he came in unto Pharaoh.
Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king was then sitting in the gate of Benjamin, read more. Ebedmelech went forth out of the king's house and spoke to the king, saying, My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is, for there is no more bread in the city. Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from here thirty men with thee and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon before he dies. So Ebedmelech took the men with him and went into the house of the king under the treasury and took from there old cast clouts and old rotten rags and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah. And Ebedmelech the Ethiopian said unto Jeremiah, Put now these old cast clouts and rotten rags under thine armholes under the cords. And Jeremiah did so. So they drew up Jeremiah with cords and took him up out of the dungeon; and Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
Tzaddi They bound up my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Koph I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
Smith
Dungeon.
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