Dungeon

Dungeon - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison (Acts 16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern (Jer. 38:6). To be shut up in, a punishment common in Egypt (Gen. 39:20; 40:3; 41:10; 42:19). It is not mentioned, however, in the law of Moses as a mode of punishment. Under the later kings imprisonment was frequently used as a punishment (2 Chron. 16:10; Jer. 20:2; 32:2; 33:1; 37:15), and it was customary after the Exile (Matt. 11:2; Luke 3:20; Acts 5:18, 21; Matt. 18:30).

Dungeon - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

DUNGEON, n.

1. A close prison; or a deep, dark place of confinement.

And in a dungeon deep.

They brought Joseph hastily out of the dungeon. Gen 41.

2. A subterraneous place of close confinement.

DUNGEON, v.t. To confine in a dungeon.