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# dungeon

«dungeon» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A dark prison room, often underground, in a castle** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a dungeon, dungeons)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dark prison room, often underground, in a castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#m1)

2) (games) In video and board games, a set of dangerous rooms or tunnels to explore. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A prison pit or jail where Joseph was kept in Egypt. Interpretation: The rabbis see Joseph's time in the dungeon as part of God's hidden plan that raised him from prison to rule Egypt. In the primary lessons: In history lessons, castles had dungeons for prisoners. In The Wind in the Willows, Toad is sentenced to twenty years and thrown into «the remotest dungeon of the best-guarded keep of the stoutest castle in all the length and breadth of Merry England». In fairy tales a dungeon tells the reader that someone is trapped and needs rescue. Phrases: «locked in the dungeon», «dungeons and dragons».

### examples

- Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. (Torah GEN.41.14, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#x1)
- For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews; and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.' (Torah GEN.40.15, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#x2)
- I called upon Thy name, O LORD, Out of the lowest dungeon. (Writings LAM.3.55, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#x3)
- They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast stones upon me. (Writings LAM.3.53, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#x4)
- When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; (Prophets JER.37.16, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#x5)
- The king threw the thief into the dungeon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#x6)
- Toad lay in the dungeon and wept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#x7)
- The dungeon was cold, damp and dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#x8)
- We visited a castle and saw the old dungeon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#x9)
- In the game, you have to find the key to escape the dungeon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#x10)
- The gaoler's daughter brought food down to the dungeon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#x11)
- Many castle dungeons were really used as storerooms. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#x12)
- So they seized him and put him in a dungeon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/#x13)

### note

Spelling: d-u-n-g-e-o-n (the e keeps the g soft: «DUN-jun»). Myth: not every castle had a torture dungeon; many cellars were for storing food.

### In the corpora

- [Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1312/)
- [When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon-house, and into the cells, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1036/)
- [They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast stones upon me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.106/)
- [I called upon Thy name, O LORD, Out of the lowest dungeon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/LAM.108/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dungeon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dungeon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.