טִפְסַר
ṭiphçar · H2951 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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marshal, recruiting-officer, commander, scribe
One responsible for overseeing and/or reporting on the activities of others, in an organized network; perhaps derived from the Assyrian word for "tablet writer"
ExamplesJeremiah 51:27 Lift up a signal flag in the land, Blow a trumpet among the nations! Consecrate the nations against her, Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; Appoint an officer against her, Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.
Nahum 3:17 Your courtiers are like the migratory locust. Your officials are like a swarm of locusts Settling in the stone shelters on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךְyour 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פָּקַדto number, to punish 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- גּוֹבlocust 1
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- שַׂר sar · H8269 · commander, chief, captain
- טִפְסַר (ṭiphçar, H2951) (only 2 occurrences, a rare loan-word) and שַׂר (sar, H8269) (421 occurrences, a common official/leader term) do share genuine overlapping sense in the "captain/official" domain.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Officials001001003007
- טִפְסַר names a military or governmental official, a captain or marshal, used of Assyria's officers likened to locusts (Nahum 3:17) and Babylon's captains summoned against Judah (Jeremiah 51:27).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2951. tiphsar טִפְסָר noun [masculine] scribe, marshal (if meaning correct, then…
טִפְסָר noun [masculine] scribe, marshal (if meaning correct, then Assyrian loan-word, from dupsarru, tablet-writer, scribe, see LenLangue Primit. de la Chaldeve, 365 SchrCOT on Jer 51:27, LotzTP 180; dupšarru, according to DlHWB 227) — plural suffix טַפְסְרַיִךְ Nah 3:17 (as if from טַפְסֵר) thy scribes, marshals, of high officials of Nineveh; absolute singular טִפְסָר עָלֶיהָ מִּקְדוּ Jer 51:27 appoint a marshal against her, i.e. against Babylon. — On military function of those skilled in writing compare שֹׁטֵר.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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