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'Jail' in the Bible

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

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsEmployers, Bad ExamplesPrisonsjail

The chief jailer committed to Joseph’s charge all the prisoners who were in the jail; so that whatever was done there, he was responsible for it.

Verse ConceptsResponsibility, Examples OfPrison KeepersEntrustingDoing One's Workjail

So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.

Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsPrisonersPrisons

Then the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, who were confined in jail, both had a dream the same night, each man with his own dream and each dream with its own interpretation.

Verse ConceptsVisions At Night

Then the officials were angry at Jeremiah and beat him, and they put him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, which they had made into the prison.

Verse ConceptsArrestingCruelty, examples ofFloggingAnger, HumanHousesImprisonmentsPrisonersPunishment, Legal Aspects Ofjail

And they laid hands on them and put them in jail until the next day, for it was already evening.

Verse ConceptsInjustice, Nature And Source OfSuffering, Of BelieversThe Next DayEvenings For Jesus And His Disciples

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δεσμοφύλαξ 
Desmophulax 
keeper of the prison , jailor
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