טַבָּח
ṭabbâch · H2876 · Hebrew · 32 occurrences
Meanings
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cook, butcher
Person responsible for cooking, especially the preparation of meat
Examples1 Samuel 9:23 And Samuel said to the cook, “Serve the portion that I gave you about which I said to you, ‘Set it aside.’”
1 Samuel 9:24 Then the cook took up the leg with what was on it and placed it before Saul. And Samuel said, “Here is what has been reserved! Place it before you and eat, because it has been kept for you until the appointed time, since I said I have invited the people.” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.
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Elite group of soldiers responsible for protecting high-ranking officials; possibly carried the pejorative connotation that "butchers" can have in referring to ruthless soldiers (guard, bodyguard (both in the collective sense))
ExamplesGenesis 37:36 Meanwhile, the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh’s officer, the captain of the bodyguard.
Genesis 39:1 Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.
Genesis 40:3 So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the prison, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רוּםto be high, to raise, to lift up 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
30 occurrences in 2 groups
- רַבmany, great 24
- שַׂרcommander, chief, official 6
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 2 entries
- Professions001001003009
- טַבָּח names a cook, one whose trade is preparing food, particularly the slaughtering and cooking of meat.
- Soldiers001001003013
- The same term also names a royal guard or executioner, as the captain of the guard under whom Joseph served in Egypt (Genesis 39:1) and Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, in the fall of Jerusalem.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2876. tabbach טַבָּח noun masculine1Sa 9:23 1 cook, 2 guardsman; — 1 cook (who also…
טַבָּח noun masculine1Sa 9:23
1 cook,
2 guardsman; —
1 cook (who also killed the animal for food and served it) טַבָּח absolute 1Sa 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: הַטּ ׳שַׂר captain of Pharaoh's bodyguard Gen 37:36; Gen 39:1 (both J), Gen 40:3-4, Gen 41:10, Gen 41:12 (all E); ׳רַבטֿ chief of Nebuchadrezzar's bodyguard 2Ki 25:8, 2Ki 25:10, 2Ki 25:11, 2Ki 25:12, 2Ki 25:15, 2Ki 25:18, 2Ki 25:20; Jer 39:9 Jer 39:16t. Jeremiah (hence Aramaic טַבָּחַיָּא רַב Dan 2:14).
[טַבָּח] noun masculine guardsman (see Biblical Hebrew id.; √ טבח); — plural emphatic טַבָּחַיָא Dan 2:14.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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