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Cook

A person employed to perform culinary service. In early times among the Hebrews cooking was performed by the mistress of the household (Gen. This unified study connects 5 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H2876, H2879
Hebrew
טַבָּח · ṭabbâch

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טַבָּח

H2876
Transliteration
ṭabbâch
Pronunciation
tab-bawkh'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
32

Glosses

cook, guardsman, cook, guard.

Lexicon definition

properly, a butcher

hence, a lifeguardsman (because he was acting as an executioner)

also a cook (usually slaughtering the animal for food)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

טַבָּחָה

H2879
Transliteration
ṭabbâchâh
Pronunciation
tab-baw-khaw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

cook.

Lexicon definition

a female cook

Greek lexical coverage

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Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Cook

A person employed to perform culinary service. In early times among the Hebrews cooking was performed by the mistress of the household (Gen. 18:2-6; Judg. 6:19), and the process was very expeditiously performed (Gen. 27:3, 4, 9, 10). Professional cooks were afterwards employed (1 Sam. 8:13; 9:23). Few animals, as a rule, were slaughtered (other than sacrifices), except for purposes of hospitality (Gen. 18:7; Luke 15:23). The paschal lamb was roasted over a fire (Ex. 12:8, 9; 2Chr. 35:13). Cooking by boiling was the usual method adopted (Lev. 8:31; Ex. 16:23). No cooking took place on the Sabbath day (Ex. 35:3).

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Cook

Indexed occurrences: 9

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Strong's Concordance

Cooks

Indexed occurrences: 1

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Cook

A person employed to perform culinary service. In early times among the Hebrews cooking was performed by the mistress of the household (Gen. 18:2-6; Judg. 6:19), and the process was very expeditiously performed (Gen. 27:3, 4, 9, 10). Professional cooks were afterwards employed (1 Sam. 8:13; 9:23). Few animals, as a rule, were slaughtered (other than sacrifices), except for purposes of hospitality (Gen. 18:7; Luke 15:23). The paschal lamb was roasted over a fire (Ex. 12:8, 9; 2Chr. 35:13). Cooking by boiling was the usual method adopted (Lev. 8:31; Ex. 16:23). No cooking took place on the Sabbath day (Ex. 35:3).

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Guard

(1.) Heb. tabbah (properly a "cook," and in a secondary sense "executioner," because this office fell to the lot of the cook in Eastern countries), the bodyguard of the kings of Egypt (Gen. 37:36) and Babylon (2 Kings 25:8; Jer. 40:1; Dan. 2:14). (2.) Heb. rats, properly a "courier," one whose office was to run before the king's chariot (2 Sam. 15:1; 1 Kings 1:5). The couriers were also military guards (1 Sam. 22:17; 2 Kings 10:25). They were probably the same who under David were called Pelethites (1 Kings 14:27; 2 Sam. 15:1). (3.) Heb. mishmereth, one who watches (Neh. 4:22), or a watch-station (7:3; 12:9; Job 7:12). In the New Testament (Mark 6:27) the Authorized Version renders the Greek spekulator by "executioner," earlier English versions by "hangman," the Revised Version by "soldier of his guard." The word properly means a "pikeman" or "halberdier," of whom the bodyguard of kings and princes was composed. In Matt. 27:65, 66; 28:11, the Authorized Version renders the Greek kustodia by "watch," and the Revised Version by "guard," the Roman guard, which consisted of four soldiers, who were relieved every three hours (Acts 12:4). The "captain of the guard" mentioned Acts 28:16 was the commander of the Praetorian troops, whose duty it was to receive and take charge of all prisoners from the provinces.

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Tebah

murder; butchery; guarding of the body; a cook

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Tibbath

killing; a cook

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