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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #5470 - סֹהַר

Transliteration

çôhar

Phonetics

so'-har

Origin

from the same as (H5469)

Parts of Speech

masculine noun

TWOT

1468b

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

house of roundness, roundhouse, prison
1. name of a prison

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (0)

The American Standard Version
did not use
this Strong's Number

BSB (0)

Genesis 8

CSB (0)

Genesis 8

ESV (0)

Genesis 8

KJV (8)

Genesis 8

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (0)

The Legacy Standard Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

N95 (0)

The New American Standard Bible (1995)
did not use
this Strong's Number

NAS (0)

Genesis 8

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (0)

The Young's Literal Translation
did not use
this Strong's Number

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

סֹ֫הַר noun [masculine] roundness (?); — only in ׳בֵּית הַמּ Genesis 39:20 (twice in verse); Genesis 39:21,22,23 (all J), Genesis 40:3,5 (R^J), the round house (name of a prison: but ׳ס perhaps an Egyptian word Hebraized, compare Dr in Hastings^{DB ii.768n.} and Eb^{Äg. M. 318f.}).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

סֹהַר m. a tower, so called from its being round, a castle (Syriac ܣܳܚܪܬܳܐ a fortress, a palace). הַסֹּהַר בֵּית the house of the castle, used of a fortified prison, -Gen. 39:2023 ; 40:3, Genesis 40:5. The Samaritan copy has סחר, which shows a leaning towards Aramaism.

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List of Word Forms

הַסֹּ֑הַר הַסֹּ֔הַר הַסֹּ֗הַר הַסֹּ֙הַר֙ הַסֹּֽהַר׃ הסהר הסהר׃ has·sō·har hasSohar hassōhar