A place of confinement, such as a jail or dungeon, used to imprison individuals.

Genesis 37:22

Irregular prisons

See also

Numbers 12:14-15

A cistern was usually a plaster-coated underground rock cavity used for storing water.

Jeremiah 38:6,13

Miriam's confinement may have been as much isolation as punishment

Jeremiah 37:15

Houses used as prisons

See also

2 Samuel 20:3
Luke 22:54
Acts 28:16
Genesis 39:20

Legally established prisons

Acts 5:18

See also

Genesis 42:16-19
Judges 16:21
1 Kings 22:27
2 Kings 17:4; 25:27
2 Chronicles 16:10
Matthew 14:3
Luke 21:12
Acts 4:3; 12:4-7; 16:37
Jeremiah 32:2

Barracks or guardhouses as prisons

Acts 22:24
Philippians 1:12-13
Isaiah 42:7

Figurative and poetic use of prisons

See also

Job 11:10
Psalms 88:8; 142:7
Isaiah 24:22
Luke 12:58
1 Peter 3:19
2 Peter 2:4
Revelation 1:18
Revelation 20:1,7

See also

The restriction of Satan's activity is pictured as his binding and imprisonment:

5246 captivity
5344 imprisonment
5366 king
5463 proclamations
6661 freedom and law