Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5470
סֹהַר
soharso'-har
prison
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çôhar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5470is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5470
a dungeon (as surrounded by walls)
The King James renders it: prison.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sohar is rendered "prison". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Eight of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 39:20So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
Genesis 39:20הַסֹּ֔הַר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's eight uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the prison8
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַסֹּֽהַר׃3
- הַסֹּ֑הַר2
- הַסֹּ֔הַר1
- הַסֹּ֙הַר֙1
- הַסֹּ֗הַר1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular8HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
eight uses
So Joseph’s master took him and had him thrown into the prison where the king’s prisoners were confined. While Joseph was there in the prison,
- הַסֹּ֔הַרhasoharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the prison
- הַסֹּֽהַר׃hasoharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the prison
the LORD was with him and extended kindness to him, granting him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
- הַסֹּֽהַר׃hasoharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the prison
And the warden put all the prisoners under Joseph’s care, so that he was responsible for all that was done in the prison.
- הַסֹּ֙הַר֙hasoharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the prison
- הַסֹּ֑הַרhasoharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the prison
The warden did not concern himself with anything under Joseph’s care, because the LORD was with Joseph and gave him success in whatever he did.
- הַסֹּ֗הַרhasoharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the prison
and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.
- הַסֹּ֑הַרhasoharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the prison
both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.
- הַסֹּֽהַר׃hasoharthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the prison
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.