King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5470
Transliteration: sohar
Phonetic Spelling: (so'-har)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: perhaps roundness
Meaning: perhaps roundness
Word Summary
sohar: perhaps roundness
Original Word: סֹהַרTransliteration: 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
סֹ֫הַר noun [masculine] roundness (?); — only in הַמּ ׳בֵּית Genesis 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.).