Greek/Hebrew Definitions

Strong's #5470: cohar (pronounced so'-har)

from the same as 5469; a dungeon (as surrounded by walls):--prison.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

sôhar

1) house of roundness, roundhouse, prison

1a) name of a prison

Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from the same as H5469

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

Genesis 39:20: "took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's"
Genesis 39:20: "prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison."
Genesis 39:21: "and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison."
Genesis 39:22: "And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all"
Genesis 39:22: "all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever"
Genesis 39:23: "The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing"
Genesis 40:3: "of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where"
Genesis 40:5: "of Egypt, which were bound in the prison."