35 occurrences in 8 translations

'Confined' in the Bible

and had him thrown into prison, where the king’s prisoners were confined. So Joseph was there in prison.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsEmployers, Bad ExamplesPrisonsjail

So the prison warden entrusted into Joseph's care all the prisoners who were confined in prison. Whatever they did, Joseph was in charge of the work detail.

Verse ConceptsResponsibility, Examples OfPrison KeepersEntrustingDoing One's Workjail

and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard in the prison where Joseph was confined.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisons

The Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were confined in the prison, each had a dream. Both had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.

Verse ConceptsVisions At Night

because I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews. Not only that, I haven't done anything that deserves me being confined to this pit."

Verse ConceptsDungeonsKidnappingImmigrants

Send one of you that he may get your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. But if not, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.”

Verse ConceptsPrisonersSpyingPeople Sending People

If you are honest, let one of you be confined to the guardhouse, while the rest of you go and take grain to relieve the hunger of your households.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPeople Providing Food

“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or his fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed,

Verse ConceptsDisputesBatteryBedsBeating PeopleBeing Struck With StonesNot Dyingstriving

Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his.

Verse ConceptsEquality Of PunishmentStriking To DeathCorpses Of AnimalsUnpremeditated

it's a festering skin disease in his body. The priest is to declare him unclean. The man need not be confined, since he's already unclean.

And the person who enters into the house [during] all [the] days [that] he confined it shall become unclean until the evening.

Verse ConceptsShutting DoorsUnclean Until Evening

And they confined him, that they might decide at the mouth of Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsMaking DecisionsWaiting Till Marriage

The Lord answered Moses, “If her father had merely spit in her face, wouldn’t she remain in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”

Verse ConceptsSpittingSalivaShaming People

So Miriam was confined outside the camp for seven days, and the people did not move on until Miriam was brought back in.

Verse ConceptsMotionlessnessStaying Put

Then they confined him until it could be declared what should be done to him.

Verse ConceptsPrisons

The Lord will judge his people, and will change his plans concerning his servants; when he sees that their power has disappeared, and that no one is left, whether confined or set free.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeGod, Repentance OfPeople Of God, In OtGod VindicatesGod Will Show Mercyvindication

The men did this: They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and confined their calves in the pen.

Verse ConceptsYoung AnimalAnimal OffspringTwo Animals

When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the 10 concubines he had left to take care of the palace and placed them under guard. He provided for them, but he was not intimate with them. They were confined until the day of their death, living as widows.

Verse ConceptsHousesWidowsAbsence Of SexTen PeopleIndividuals going homeActual Widows

But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and he did not offer tribute to the king of Assyria as [he had] year after year; so the king of Assyria arrested him, and confined him [in] a house of imprisonment.

Verse ConceptsArrestingMessengers Sent OutenvoyConspiraciesImprisonmentsPrisonersTaxationPrisons

Then Pharaoh Neco confined him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, from reigning in Jerusalem, and imposed a levy on the land of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

Verse ConceptsCoinageChainsTaxationFine As Penalty

Later I visited Delaiah's son Shemaiah, a grandson of Mehetabel, who was confined at home. He kept urging me, "Let's meet together at the house of God, within the Temple, and take refuge there, because they're coming to kill you. In fact, they're coming at night to kill you!"

Verse ConceptsIntimidationShutting DoorsMeeting PeopleAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleRebuilding The Temple

when I said, 'To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined'?

Verse ConceptsWavesDivine Power Over NatureMighty in its influenceThe Ocean

You have removed my acquaintances far from me. You have made me detestable to them. [I am] confined and cannot go out.

Verse ConceptsFriendlessnessAbandoning FriendsShutting DoorsFriends FailingPeople Being HatedBest Friendsshunning

They will be gathered togetherlike prisoners in a pit.They will be confined to a dungeon;after many days they will be punished.

Verse ConceptsPrisoners

Yes, it was for my own good that I suffered extreme anguish. But in love you have held back my life from the Pit in which it has been confined; you have tossed all my sins behind your back.

Verse ConceptsReinstatementSuffering, Of BelieversBeing BitterGod Has ForgivenPits Symbolizing GriefHope In Hard TimesBitternesscorruption

The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard at the palace of the king of Judah

Verse ConceptsCourtyardPrisonersActual Attacks On Jerusalem

where Zedekiah had confined him. Zedekiah had said, "Why did you prophesy and say these things? You said, "This is what the LORD says: "I'm about to give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

Verse ConceptsCapturing Cities

While he was still confined in the guard’s courtyard, the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah a second time:

Verse ConceptsPrisonersShutting SecurelySpeaking Again

Jeremiah instructed Baruch, "I'm confined and can't go to the LORD's Temple.

For even if you had defeated the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained only the wounded men among them, yet they would rise up, every man confined in his tent, and burn down this city with fire.’”

Verse ConceptsdefeatBurning Jerusalem

So they pulled Jeremiah up from the cistern with ropes. Jeremiah, however, still remained confined to the courtyard of the guardhouse.

Verse ConceptsDungeons

Now the word of the Lord had come to Jeremiah when he was confined in the guard’s courtyard:

Verse ConceptsCourtyardPrisoners

He found there a man named Aeneas who had been confined to a mattress for eight years because he was paralyzed.

Verse ConceptsParalyticsEight Or Nine YearsBeds

Before this faith came, we were confined under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith was revealed.

Verse ConceptsKeysUnder The Law

Bible Theasaurus

Captive (146 instances)
Confine (14 instances)
Confined (35 instances)
Detain (5 instances)
Diseased (75 instances)
Enclose (3 instances)
Imprisoned (36 instances)
Penned (3 instances)
Restrain (52 instances)
Restrict (1 instance)

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