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Lexicon :: Strong's H2876 - ṭabāḥ

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טַבָּח
Transliteration
ṭabāḥ
Pronunciation
tab-bawkh'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 786c

Strong’s Definitions

טַבָּח ṭabbâch, tab-bawkh'; from H2873; properly, a butcher; hence, a lifeguardsman (because he was acting as an executioner); also a cook (usually slaughtering the animal for food):—cook, guard.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's H2876 in the following manner: guard (30x), cook (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's H2876 in the following manner: guard (30x), cook (2x).

  1. executioner, cook, bodyguard, guardsman

    1. cook (who also killed the animal for food)

    2. guardsmen, bodyguard

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
טַבָּח ṭabbâch, tab-bawkh'; from H2873; properly, a butcher; hence, a lifeguardsman (because he was acting as an executioner); also a cook (usually slaughtering the animal for food):—cook, guard.
STRONGS H2876: Abbreviations
טַבָּח noun masculine1 Samuel 9:23 † 1. cook, 2. guardsman; —
1. cook (who also killed the animal for food and served it) טַבָּח absolute 1 Samuel 9:23, 24.†
2. elsewhere only plural טַבָּחִים guardsmen, bodyguard (originally royal slaughterers; see RSOTJC 426 (262); Semitic i. 1st ed., 396); always in the following combinations: שַׂר הַטּ׳ captain of Pharaoh's bodyguard Genesis 37:36; Genesis 39:1 (both J), Genesis 40:3, 4; Genesis 41:10, 12 (all E); רַבטֿ׳ chief of Nebuchadrezzar's bodyguard 2 Kings 25:8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 18, 20; Jeremiah 39:9 + 16 times Jeremiah (hence Aramaic רַב טַבָּחַיָּא Daniel 2:14).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H2877.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

37:36; 39:1; 40:3; 40:4; 41:10; 41:12

1 Samuel

9:23; 9:23; 9:24

2 Kings

25:8; 25:10; 25:11; 25:12; 25:15; 25:18; 25:20

Jeremiah

39:9

Daniel

2:14

H2876

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2876 matches the Hebrew טַבָּח (ṭabāḥ),
which occurs 32 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:36 - And the Madianites sold Joseph into Egypt; to Petephres, the eunuch of Pharao, captain of the guard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 39:1 - And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Petephres the eunuch of Pharao, the [fn]captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ismaelites, who brought him down thither.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:3 - And he put them in ward, into the prison, into the place whereinto Joseph had been led.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:4 - And the chief keeper of the prison committed them to Joseph, and he stood by them; and they were some days in the prison.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:10 - Pharao was angry with his servants, and put us in prison in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 41:12 - And there was there with us a young man, a Hebrew servant of the captain of the guard; and we related to him our dreams, and he interpreted them to us.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:23 - And Samuel said to the cook, Give me the portion which I gave thee, which I told thee to set by thee.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:24

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:24 - Now the cook had boiled the shoulder, and he set it before Saul; and Samuel said to Saul, Behold that which is left: set it before thee, and eat; for it is set thee for a testimony in preference to the others; [fn]take of it: and Saul ate with Samuel on that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:8 - And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month (this is the nineteenth year of Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon), came Nabuzardan, [fn]captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:10 - And the force of the Chaldeans pulled down the wall of Jerusalem round about.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:11 - And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard removed the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the [fn]men who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:12 - But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vine-dressers and husbandmen.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:15 - And the captain of the guard took the fire-pans, and the gold and silver bowls.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:18 - And the captain of the guard took Saraias the [fn]high-priest, and Sophonias [fn]the second in order, and the three door-keepers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:20 - And Nabuzardan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Reblatha.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:1 - (LXX 47:1) The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after that Nabuzardan the captain of the guard had let him go out of Rama, when he had taken him in manacles in the midst of the captivity of Juda, even those who were carried to Babylon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:2 - (LXX 47:2) And the chief captain of the guard took him, and said to him, The Lord thy God has pronounced all these evils upon this place:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 40:5 - (LXX 47:5) But if not, depart; return to Godolias the son of Achicam, the son of Saphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed governor in the land of Juda, and dwell with him in the midst of the people in the land of Juda: to whatsoever places it seems good in thine eyes to go, do thou even go. And the captain of the guard made him presents, and let him go.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:10 - (LXX 48:10) And Ismael brought back all the people that were left in Massepha, and the king's daughter, whom the captain of the guard had committed in charge to Godolias the son of Achicam: and he went away beyond the children of Ammon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 43:6 - (LXX 50:6) the mighty men, and the women, and the children that were left, and the daughters of the king, and the souls which Nabuzardan had left with Godolias the son of Achicam, and Jeremias the prophet, and Baruch the son of Nerias.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:12 - And in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nabuzardan the captain of the guard, who waited on the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:14 - And the host of the Chaldeans that was with the captain of the guard pulled down all the wall of Jerusalem round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:16 - But the captain of the guard left the remnant of the people to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:19 - and the basons, and the snuffers, and the oil-funnels, and the candlesticks, and the censers, and the cups, the golden, of gold, and the silver, of silver, the captain of the guard took away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:24 - And the captain of the guard took the chief priest, and the second priest, and those that kept the way;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 52:26 - And Nabuzardan the captain of the king's guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Deblatha.
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