Help QuickNav Adv. Options
LSB

LSB

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Strong's
Red Letter
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Lexicon :: Strong's H5470 - sōhar

Choose a new font size and typeface
סֹהַר
Transliteration
sōhar
Pronunciation
so'-har
Listen
Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the same as סַהַר (H5469)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 1468b

Strong’s Definitions

סֹהַר çôhar, so'-har; from the same as H5469; a dungeon (as surrounded by walls):—prison.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's H5470 in the following manner: prison (8x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's H5470 in the following manner: prison (8x).

  1. house of roundness, roundhouse, prison

    1. name of a prison

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סֹהַר çôhar, so'-har; from the same as H5469; a dungeon (as surrounded by walls):—prison.
STRONGS H5470: Abbreviations
† 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 (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.).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

39:20; 39:21; 39:22; 39:23; 40:3; 40:5

H5470

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5470 matches the Hebrew סֹהַר (sōhar),
which occurs 8 times in 6 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:20 - So Joseph’s master took him and put him into the jail H5470, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the jail H5470.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:21

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:21 - But Yahweh was with Joseph and [fn]extended lovingkindness to him and gave him favor in the sight of the chief jailer H5470.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:22 - So the chief jailer H5470 gave into the hand of Joseph all the prisoners who were in the jail H5470; so that whatever was done there, he was [fn]the one who did it.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 39:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:23 - The chief jailer H5470 did not supervise anything under Joseph’s hand because Yahweh was with him; and whatever he did, Yahweh made to succeed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:3 - So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail H5470, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:5 - Then the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt, who were confined in jail H5470, both had a dream the same night, each man with his own dream and each dream with its own interpretation.
BLB Searches
Search the Bible
LSB
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
LSB
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan