Bible Dictionaries
Prisoner

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

an adjective, primarily denotes "binding, bound," then, as a noun, "the person bound, a captive, prisoner" (akin to deo, "to bind"), Matthew 27:15,16; Mark 15:6; Acts 16:25,27; 23:18; 25:14 , RV (AV, "in bonds"),27; 28:16,17; Ephesians 3:1; 4:1; 2 Timothy 1:8; Philemon 1:1,9; in Hebrews 10:34; 13:3 , "in bonds." See BOND , No. 2.

Note: The prison at Jerusalem (Acts 5 ) was controlled by the priests and probably attached to the high priest's palace, or the Temple. Paul was imprisoned at Jerusalem in the fort Antonia, Acts 23:10; at Caesarea, in Herod's Praetorium, 23:35; probably his final imprisonment in Rome was in the Tullianum dungeon.

akin to No. 1, occurs in Acts 27:1,42 .

"a fellow prisoner," primarily "one of fellow captives in war" (from aichme, "a spear," and haliskomai, "to be taken"), is used by Paul of Andronicus and Junias, Romans 16:7; of Epaphras, Philemon 1:23; of Aristarchus, Colossians 4:10 , on which Lightfoot remarks that probably his relations with the Apostle in Rome excited suspicion and led to a temporary confinement, or that he voluntarily shared his captivity by living with him.