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# סֹהַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5470

**roundness** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

roundness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5470/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סֹ֫הַר: roundness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5470/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] roundness (?);—only in בֵּית הַסּ׳ Gn 39:20(×2), 21, 22, 23 (all J), 40:3, 5 (RJ), the round house (name of a prison: but ס׳ perhaps an Egyptian word Hebraized, cf. Dr in HastingsDB ii. 768 n. and EbÄgM 318f.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the prison (8).

## In the verses

[Genesis 40:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.40.3/#tree)

וַיִּתֵּ֨ן אֹתָ֜ם בְּמִשְׁמַ֗ר בֵּ֛ית שַׂ֥ר הַטַבָּחִ֖יםאֶל־בֵּ֣ית הַסֹּ֑הַר מְק֕וֹם אֲשֶׁ֥ר יוֹסֵ֖ף אָס֥וּר שָֽׁם׃

*Word for word:* and he.put them in the.custody of.the.house of.the.commander of the.bodyguards into the.house of the.prison the.place (of).where Joseph \[was\].imprisoned there

*JPS 1917:* And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

[Genesis 39:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.39.21/#tree)

וַיְהִ֤י יְהוָה֙ אֶת־יוֹסֵ֔ף וַיֵּ֥ט אֵלָ֖יו חָ֑סֶד וַיִּתֵּ֣ן חִנּ֔וֹ בְּעֵינֵ֖י שַׂ֥ר בֵּית־הַסֹּֽהַר׃

*Word for word:* and he.was Yahweh with Joseph and he.extended to him covenant.loyalty and he.gave favor his in the.eyes of.the.commander of.the.house of the.prison

*JPS 1917:* But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness unto him, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5470.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5470/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).