Bible dictionaries
Imprisonment
What Bible dictionaries say about “Imprisonment”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Imprisonment - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
IMPRIS'ONMENT, n. The act of putting and confining in prison;
the act of arresting and detaining in custody.
1. Confinement in a place; restraint of liberty to go from place to place at pleasure. Appropriately, the confinement of a criminal or debtor within the walls of a prison, or in the custody of a sheriff, _c.
False imprisonment is any confinement of the person, or restraint of liberty, without legal or sufficient authority. The arrest or detention of the person by an officer without warrant, or by an illegal warrant, or by a legal warrant executed at an unlawful time, is false imprisonment.
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)
im-priz'-'-n-ment.
See PUNISHMENTS; PRISON.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915