Dict: easton - Dungeon

Dungeon @ different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison kjv@Acts:16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern kjv@Jeremiah:38:6). To be shut up in, a punishment common in Egypt kjv@Genesis:39:20 kjv@Genesis:40:3 kjv@Genesis: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; kjv@Jeremiah:20:2 kjv@Jeremiah:32:2 kjv@Jeremiah:33:1 ; 37:15), and it was customary after the Exile kjv@Matthew:11:2; kjv@Luke:3:20; kjv@Acts:5:18 kjv@Acts:5:21 kjv@Matthew:18:30).