Lexical Definition

‎סֹהַר‎ çôhar (so'-har) prison ^H:N-M
from the same as ‎סַהַר‎

prison.

• a dungeon (as surrounded by walls)

1) house of roundness, roundhouse, prison
1a) name of a prison

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎סֹ֫הַר‎ noun [masculine] roundness (?); — only in ‎׳‎‎בֵּית הַמּ‎ Gen 39:20 (twice in verse); Gen 39:21; Gen 39:22; Gen 39:23 (all J), Gen 40:3; Gen 40:5 (R^J), the round house (name of a prison: but ‎׳‎‎ס‎ perhaps an Egyptian word Hebraized, compare Dr in Hastings^{DB ii.768 n.} and Eb^{Äg. M. 318 f.}).

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