King James Bible Dictionary

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