Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A cottage or small house; a hut. 2. (n.) A small room; an enclosed place. 3. (n.) A room in ship for officers or passengers. 4. (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a cabin; to lodge. 5. (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a cabin. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia CABIN kab'-in (chanuyyoth, "vaults"; Jeremiah 37:16 the Revised Version (British and American), "cells"): In the East the prison often consisted of a pit (compare "dungeon-house" the Revised Version (British and American) and "house of the pit" the Revised Version, margin) with vaulted cells around it for the confinement of prisoners. The word is probably a gloss. The phrase "and into the cells" seems superfluous after "into the dungeonhouse."