סֹהַר
çôhar · H5470 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Thing
- Prison, dungeonPrison and penal activity108 verses
Meanings
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prison
Place where criminals or other prisoners were confined
ExamplesGenesis 39:20 So Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the prison.
Genesis 39:21 But the LORD was with Joseph and extended kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the warden of the prison.
Genesis 39:22 And the warden of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison; so that whatever was done there, he was responsible for it.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
8 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 8
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 3 words
- מַהְפֶּכֶת mahpeketh · H4115 · stocks, prison
- מַהְפֶּכֶת (‘prison, stocks’) and סֹהַר (‘prison’) are near-synonyms denoting a place of confinement; מַהְפֶּכֶת can also denote the stocks specifically, but in its ‘prison’ sense the two words are close synonyms for a place of imprisonment.
- כְּלִיא kᵉlîyʼ · H3628 · prison
- סֹהַר (çôhar, H5470) and כְּלוּא both denote a prison or place of confinement, with an identical basic sense.
- כֶּלֶא keleʼ · H3608 · prison
- Both words denote prison or confinement, two distinct lemmas with straightforward parallel renderings.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Prisons001003002006
- The word names a prison or dungeon, where Joseph is confined after Potiphar's wife's accusation (Genesis 39:20-23, 40:3), tying the word to this place of confinement.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5470. sohar סֹ֫הַר noun [masculine] roundness (?); — only in הַמּ ׳בֵּית Gen 39:20…
סֹ֫הַר noun [masculine] roundness (?); — only in הַמּ ׳בֵּית Gen 39:20 (twice in verse); Gen 39:21-22, Gen 39:23 (all J), Gen 40:3, Gen 40:5 (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 and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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