Prison

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

Irregular prisons

Genesis 37:22 A cistern was usually a plaster-coated underground rock cavity used for storing water. See also Numbers 12:14–15 Miriam's confinement may have been as much isolation as punishment; Jeremiah 38:6, Jeremiah 38:13

“Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.

Houses used as prisons

Jeremiah 37:15 See also 2 Samuel 20:3; Luke 22:54; Acts 28:16

The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.

Legally established prisons

Genesis 39:20; Acts 5:18 See also Genesis 42:16–19; Judges 16:21; 1 Kings 22:27; 2 Kings 17:4, 2 Kings 25:27; 2 Chronicles 16:10; Matthew 14:3; Luke 21:12; Acts 4:3, Acts 12:4–7, Acts 16:37

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

and arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail.

Barracks or guardhouses as prisons

Jeremiah 32:2; Acts 22:24; Philippians 1:12–13

Figurative and poetic use of prisons

Isaiah 42:7 See also Job 11:10; Psalm 88:8, Psalm 142:7; Isaiah 24:22; Luke 12:58; 1 Peter 3:19; 2 Peter 2:4; Revelation 1:18REV Revelation 20:1, Revelation 20:7

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.