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kab'-in (vaults, cells)
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
only in Jeremiah
37:16 (RSV, "cells"), Arched vaults or recesses off a passage or room; cells
for the closer confinement of prisoners.
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
(no entry)
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(no entry)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
kab'-in (chanuyyoth, "vaults"; Jeremiah
37:16 the Revised Version (British and American), "cells"):
In the East the prison often consisted of a pit (compare "dungeon-house" the Revised
Version (British and American) and "house of the pit" the Revised Version, margin)
with vaulted cells around it for the confinement of prisoners. The word is probably
a gloss. The phrase "and into the cells" seems superfluous after "into the dungeonhouse."
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