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Sennacherib

King of Assyria, son and successor of Shalmaneser. He began his reign A. Sennacherib is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “bramble of destruction.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H5576
Hebrew
סַנְחֵרִיב · Çanchêrîyb
Name meaning
bramble of destruction According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

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סַנְחֵרִיב

H5576
Transliteration
Çanchêrîyb
Pronunciation
san-khay-reeb'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
13

Glosses

Sennacherib, Sin-aḩê-irba, Sin multiplied brothers, Sennacherib.

Lexicon definition

Sancherib, an Assyrian king

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

סַנְחֵרִיב

H5576
Transliteration
Çanchêrîyb
Pronunciation
san-khay-reeb'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
13

Glosses

Sennacherib.

Lexicon definition

Sancherib, an Assyrian king

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Sennacherib

bramble of destruction

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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

SENNACHERIB

king of Assyria, son and successor of Shalmaneser. He began his reign A. M. 3290, and reigned only four years. Hezekiah, king of Judah, having refused to pay him tribute, though he afterward submitted, he invaded Judea with a great army, took several forts, and after repeated, insolent, and blasphemous messages, besieged Jerusalem; but his army being suddenly smitten with a pestilence, which cut off a hundred and eighty-five thousand in a single night, he returned to Nineveh, where he was murdered in the temple of Nisroch by his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer, and was succeeded by his other son, Esar-haddon, 2 Kings xix, 7, 13, 37.

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Sennacherib

Indexed occurrences: 18

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Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Sennacherib

Meaning:
bramble of destruction

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SENNACHERIB

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Esarhaddon

Assur has given a brother, successor of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:37; Isa. 37:38). He ascended the throne about B.C. 681. Nothing further is recorded of him in Scripture, except that he settled certain colonists in Samaria (Ezra 4:2). But from the monuments it appears that he was the most powerful of all the Assyrian monarchs. He built many temples and palaces, the most magnificent of which was the south-west palace at Nimrud, which is said to have been in its general design almost the same as Solomon's palace, only much larger (1 Kings 7:1-12). In December B.C. 681 Sennacherib was murdered by two of his sons, who, after holding Nineveh for forty-two days, were compelled to fly to Erimenas of Ararat, or Armenia. Their brother Esarhaddon, who had been engaged in a campaign against Armenia, led his army against them. They were utterly overthrown in a battle fought April B.C. 680, near Malatiyeh, and in the following month Esarhaddon was crowned at Nineveh. He restored Babylon, conquered Egypt, and received tribute from Manasseh of Judah. He died in October B.C. 668, while on the march to suppress an Egyptian revolt, and was succeeded by his son Assur-bani-pal, whose younger brother was made viceroy of Babylonia.

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Rabsaris

Chief of the Heads, one of the three officers whom Sennacherib sent from Lachish with a threatening message to Jerusalem (2 Kings 18:17; Jer. 39:3, 13).

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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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Sennacherib

bramble of destruction

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