Cabin

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Cabin . The Eng. word ‘cabin’ is now chiefly confined to an apartment in a ship, but was formerly used of any small room. It occurs in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] for the cell (which is the word in AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] and RV [Note: Revised Version.] ) in which Jeremiah was confined (  Jeremiah 37:16 ). Cf. Spenser, FQ I. vi. 23

‘So long in secret cabin there he held

Her captive to his sensual desire.’

Webster's Dictionary

(1): (n.) A small room; an inclosed place.

(2): (n.) A cottage or small house; a hut.

(3): (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cabin.

(4): (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge.

(5): (n.) A room in ship for officers or passengers.

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 Jeremiah 37:16 (a) This is really a dungeon or a prison cell for prisoners.

People's Dictionary of the Bible

Cabin.  Jeremiah 37:16. A prison cell.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Jeremiah 37:16

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( חָנוּת , Chanuth'; Sept. merely Graecizes, Ἡ Χερέθ ), properly a vault or cell (so the margin) within the dungeon, and under ground, for the separate confinement of prisoners ( Jeremiah 37:16). Others (Scheid, in the Diss. Lugdun. p. 988) understand it to mean a curved post, i.e. The Stocks (comp.  Jeremiah 20:2-3;  Jeremiah 29:26). The idea conveyed in either case is that the prophet suffered the most severe and loathsome imprisonment. (See Prison).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kab´in חניּות ḥănuyyōth  Jeremiah 37:16