Prisoners
Bible Usage:
- First Reference: Genesis 39:20
- Last Reference: Acts 28:16
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H615 Used 8 times
- H616 Used 3 times
- H631 Used 2 times
- H7628 Used 2 times
- G1198 Used 3 times
- G1202 Used 2 times
PRIS'ONER, noun One who is confined in a prison by legal arrest or warrant.
1. A person under arrest or in custody of the sheriff, whether in prison or not; as a prisoner at the bar of a court.
2. A captive; one taken by an enemy in war.
3. One whose liberty is restrained, as a bird in a cage.
Joseph
Genesis 39:20-23; Genesis 1:40; Genesis 41:1-44
Jeremiah
Jeremiah 38:6-28; Jeremiah 39:14
John the Baptist
Matthew 11:2; Matthew 14:3-12; Mark 6:17; Luke 3:20
Jesus
Matthew 26:47-75; Matthew 40:27; Mark 14:43-72; Mark 41:15; Luke 22:47-71; Luke 42:23; John 18:3-40; John 43:19
Apostles
Acts 5:17-42
Peter
Acts 12:3-19
Paul
Acts 16:19-40; Acts 21:27-40; Acts 44:22
Silas
Acts 16:19-40
Required to labor
Judges 16:21
Kept on bread and water of affliction
1 Kings 22:27
Kept in chains
Acts 12:6
Kept in stocks
Proverbs 7:22; Jeremiah 29:26; Acts 16:24
Confined in:
Court of the palace
Jeremiah 32:2
House of the scribe
Jeremiah 37:15
House of captain of the guard
Genesis 40:3
Visited by friends
Matthew 11:2; Acts 24:23
Bound to soldiers
Acts 12:6-7
Severe hardships of, mitigated
Jeremiah 37:20-21
Cruelty to
General references
Jeremiah 38:6; Lamentations 3:53-54
Captive
Keepers responsible for
Acts 12:18-19
Tortured to extort self-criminating testimony
Acts 22:24
Scourged
Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15; Acts 16:23; Acts 16:33; 2 Corinthians 6:5; 2 Corinthians 11:23-24
Permitted to make defense
Acts 24:10; Acts 25:8; Acts 25:16; Acts 26:1; 2 Timothy 4:16
Kindness to:
By the prison keeper to Jeremiah
Jeremiah 38:7-28
By Philippian jailer to Paul
Acts 16:33
By Felix
Acts 24:23
By Julius, the centurion
Acts 27:1; Acts 27:3; Acts 28:16; Acts 28:30-31
To be visited and ministered to
Matthew 25:35-46
Released at feasts
Matthew 27:15-17; Mark 15:6; Luke 23:17; John 18:39
Of war:
Put to death
Joshua 10:16-27; 1 Samuel 15:33; 1 Samuel 27:11; 2 Samuel 12:31; 2 Kings 25:7; 1 Chronicles 20:3; Hosea 13:16; Amos 1:13; Lamentations 3:34
Put to death by divine command
Numbers 31:9; Numbers 31:17
Thumbs and toes cut off
Judges 1:6-7
Blinded
2 Kings 25:7
Captive
Consolations for
Psalms 69:33; Psalms 79:11; Psalms 102:19-20; Psalms 146:7
Captive; Imprisonment
Figurative
Isaiah 61:1; Luke 4:18