STRONGS NUMBER H5470


Word Summary
sohar: perhaps roundness
Original Word: סֹהַר
Transliteration: sohar
Phonetic Spelling: (so'-har)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: perhaps roundness
Meaning: perhaps roundness
Strong's Concordance
prison

From the same as cahar; a dungeon (as surrounded by walls) -- prison.

see HEBREW cahar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5470. sohar

סֹ֫הַרnoun [masculine] roundness (?); — only in הַמּ ׳בֵּיתGenesis 39:20 (twice in verse); 39:21-22, 23 (all J), 40:3, 5 (RJ), the round house (name of a prison: but ׳ס‎ perhaps an Egyptian word Hebraized, compare Dr in HastingsDB ii.768 n. and EbÄg. M. 318 f.).