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# prisoner

«prisoner» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **kept in prison as a punishment for a crime** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a prisoner, prisoners)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person who is kept in prison as a punishment for a crime. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#m1)

2) A person who is caught and kept somewhere and is not allowed to leave (a prisoner of war). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#m2)

3) Someone who feels trapped by something (a prisoner of fear). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: A person kept in prison. In the Psalms, Job and Lamentations, prisoners are people in captivity or distress, and the prophets use it for exiles. Interpretation: Tradition reads the Psalm as teaching that God hears the needy and does not despise those in captivity. Lamentations is read as showing that crushing prisoners is a wrong God sees. In the primary lessons: Used in history (prisoners of war, castles and dungeons), stories and news about crime. Tells the reader someone has lost their freedom. Phrases: «take someone prisoner», «hold prisoner», «prisoner of war», «escaped prisoner».

### examples

- And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound; and he was there in the prison. (Torah GEN.39.20, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#x1)
- And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it. (Torah GEN.39.22, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#x2)
- To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth, (Writings LAM.3.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#x3)
- For the LORD hearkeneth unto the needy, and despiseth not His prisoners. (Writings PSA.69.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#x4)
- There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster. (Writings JOB.3.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#x5)
- The prisoner was locked in a cell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#x6)
- The knight was taken prisoner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#x7)
- Two prisoners escaped from the jail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#x8)
- The pirates held the captain prisoner on their ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#x9)
- Prisoners of war were sent home at the end of the war. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#x10)
- She felt like a prisoner in her own house during the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/P/prisoner/#x11)

### note

Countable. Related words: «prison» (the building), «jail» (US «jail», UK also «gaol» — old spelling), «imprison». A «prisoner» is not always a criminal: prisoners of war are soldiers who were captured.

### In the corpora

- [That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.317/)
- [Return to the stronghold, ye prisoners of hope; even to-day do I declare that I will render double unto thee.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ZEC.136/)
- [For the LORD hearkeneth unto the needy, and despiseth not His prisoners.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1161/)
- [To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1791/)
- [The LORD looseth the prisoners;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2644/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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