Prison / jail

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Prison / jail

Prison / jail

Figuratively: a prison. A detention facility where prisoners or detainees are held while legal proceedings are ongoing.

(“And the officials were angry at Jeremiah, beat him, and put him in the prison, the house of Jonathan the scribe, for they made him go to the jail” – Jeremiah 37:15; and likewise: “And these are laundered on the appointed day – coming from the land of the sea and from the prison, and the outcast who the sages permitted” – Moed Katan 3b; and likewise: “They seize whom they seize and say, behold, it is he, they beat him and bind him in the prison” – Agnon, A Bundle of Stories, 136; and likewise: “They returned all the money to the merchant and put the murderer in the prison” – S.Y. Agnon, Stories of the Ba‘al Shem Tov (Matches); and likewise: “And the dreams of the officer in the prison / how a vine grows from his head, and wine squeezes into the king’s cup” – Natan Yonatan, Dreams.)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

בֵּית הָאָסוּרִים

Definition (Hebrew)

בִּמְלִיצָה: בֵּית כֶּלֶא. בֵּית מַעֲצָר. מִתְקָן כְּלִיאָה שֶׁבּוֹ שׁוֹהִים אֲנָשִׁים אָסוּרִים אוֹ עֲצוּרִים שֶׁמִּשְׁפָּט עֲדַיִן מִתְנַהֵל נֶגְדָם.

("וַיִּקְצְפוּ הַשָּׂרִים עַל יִרְמְיָהוּ וְהִכּוּ אֹתוֹ וְנָתְנוּ אוֹתוֹ בֵּית הָאֵסוּר בֵּית יְהוֹנָתָן הַסֹּפֵר, כִּי אֹתוֹ עָשׂוּ לְבֵית הַכֶּלֶא"- יִרְמְיָה לז טוּ, וְכֵן: "וְאֵלּוּ מְכַבְּסִין בַּמּוֹעֵד- הַבָּא מִמְּדִינַת הַיָּם וּמִבֵּית הַשִּׁבְיָה וְהַיּוֹצֵא מִבֵּית הָאֲסוּרִים וְהַמְנֻדֶּה שֶׁהִתִּירוּ לוֹ חֲכָמִים"- מוֹעֵד קָטָן ג ב, וְכֵן: "תּוֹפְסִים אֶת מִי שֶׁתּוֹפְסִים וְאוֹמְרִים הִנֵּה הוּא זֶה, מַכִּים אוֹתוֹ וְחוֹבְשִׁים אוֹתוֹ בְּבֵית הָאֲסוּרִים"- עַגְנוֹן/ תַּכְרִיךְ שֶׁל סִפּוּרִים, 136, וְכֵן: "הֵשִׁיבוּ אֶת כָּל הַכֶּסֶף לַסּוֹחֵר וְנָתְנוּ אֶת הָרוֹצֵחַ בְּבֵית הָאֲסוּרִים"- שַׁ"י עַגְנוֹן/ סִפּוּרֵי הַבֵּעשְׁ"ט, (שִׁדּוּכִים), וְכֵן: "וַחֲלוֹמוֹת הַשַּׂר בְּבֵית הָאֲסוּרִים/ אֵיךְ גֶּפֶן מֵרֹאשׁוֹ צוֹמַחַת, וְיַיִן אֶל גְּבִיעֵי מַלְכּוֹ סוֹחֵט"- נָתָן יוֹנָתָן/ חֲלוֹמוֹת)

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