Bible dictionaries
Dungeon
What Bible dictionaries say about “Dungeon”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
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.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
dun'-jun. See PRISON.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915Smith’s Bible Dictionary
William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3
The article in Smith