Prison
סֹ֫הַרStrong’s H5470sohar (so-har)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sohar is the Hebrew word usually translated “prison”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.”
Meaning
- House of roundness, roundhouse, prisonname of a prison
How it's translated
- the prison 8
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 6
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Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 39:21But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
- Genesis 39:22And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
- Genesis 39:23The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the LORD was with him, and that which he did, the LORD made it to prosper.
- Genesis 40:3And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
- Genesis 40:5And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.
Hebrew dictionary
סֹ֫הַר sohar · prison
1) house of roundness, roundhouse, prison 1a) name of a prison
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “prison” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRISON, noun
priz'n. [Latin prendo.]
- In a general sense, any place of confinement or involuntary restraint; but appropriately, a public building for the confinement or safe custody of debtors and criminals committed by process of law; a jail.
- Any place of confinement or restraint.
- In Scripture, a low, obscure, afflicted condition. Ecclesiastes 4:14
- The cave where David was confined. Psalms 142:7
All definitions and other forms of “prison”
- A state of spiritual bondage. Isaiah 42:7
PRIS'ON, verb transitive
To shut up in a prison; to confine; to restrain from liberty.
- To confine in any manner.
- To captivate; to enchain.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.