Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
רַבְשָׁקֵה
- Transliteration
- Rabshâqêh
- Pronunciation
- rab-shaw-kay'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 32
Glosses
Rabshakeh.
Lexicon definition
Rabshakeh, a Babylonian official
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Rabshakeh
A chief butler, or cupbearer. This is a term of dignity, and not a proper name. This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
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- Subject
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- H7262
- Hebrew
- רַבְשָׁקֵה · Rabshâqêh
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H7262
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Complete dictionary entries
Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
Rabshakeh
Chief of the princes, the name given to the chief cup-bearer or the vizier of the Assyrian court; one of Sennacherib's messengers to Hezekiah. See the speech he delivered, in the Hebrew language, in the hearing of all the people, as he stood near the wall on the north side of the city (2 Kings 18:17-37). He and the other envoys returned to their master and reported that Hezekiah and his people were obdurate, and would not submit.
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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
RABSHAKEH
a chief butler, or cupbearer. This is a term of dignity, and not a proper name. Rabshakeh was sent by Sennacherib, king of Assyria, to summon Hezekiah to surrender Jerusalem, 2 Kings xviii, 17, 18; xix, 4; Isaiah xxxvi.
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Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Rabshakeh
Indexed occurrences: 16
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- Historical Reference: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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Cup-bearer
An officer of high rank with Egyptian, Persian, Assyrian, and Jewish monarchs. The cup-bearer of the king of Egypt is mentioned in connection with Joseph's history (Gen. 40:1-21; 41:9). Rabshakeh (q.v.) was cup-bearer in the Assyrian court (2 Kings 18:17). Nehemiah filled this office to the king of Persia (Neh. 1:11). We read also of Solomon's cup-bearers (1 Kings 10:5; 2 Chr. 9:4).
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Dove's dung
(2 Kings 6:25) has been generally understood literally. There are instances in history of the dung of pigeons being actually used as food during a famine. Compare also the language of Rabshakeh to the Jews (2 Kings 18:27; Isa. 36:12). This name, however, is applied by the Arabs to different vegetable substances, and there is room for the opinion of those who think that some such substance is here referred to, as, e.g., the seeds of a kind of millet, or a very inferior kind of pulse, or the root of the ornithogalum, i.e., bird-milk, the star-of-Bethlehem.
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Rabshakeh
Chief of the princes, the name given to the chief cup-bearer or the vizier of the Assyrian court; one of Sennacherib's messengers to Hezekiah. See the speech he delivered, in the Hebrew language, in the hearing of all the people, as he stood near the wall on the north side of the city (2 Kings 18:17-37). He and the other envoys returned to their master and reported that Hezekiah and his people were obdurate, and would not submit.
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