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# בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1095

**Belteshazzar** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Belteshazzar [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1095/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1095/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Dn 1:7, בֵּלְטְאשַׁצַּר֑ Dn 10:1 (prob. = Bab. balâṭsu-uṣur, protect his life! COT Dn 1:7 Dl in BD Dn. p. ix; HoffmZA 1887, 56 conj. אצר בלט שׁ\[ר\] Balaṭ (= god Saturn?) protect the king!—Dn 4:5 conn. with Bel, but name then inexplicable), name given to Daniel by Neb.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Belteshazzar (2).

## In the verses

[Daniel 1:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.7/#tree)

וַיָּ֧שֶׂם לָהֶ֛ם שַׂ֥ר הַסָּרִיסִ֖ים שֵׁמ֑וֹת וַיָּ֨שֶׂם לְדָֽנִיֵּ֜אל בֵּ֣לְטְשַׁאצַּ֗ר וְלַֽחֲנַנְיָה֙ שַׁדְרַ֔ךְ וּלְמִֽישָׁאֵ֣ל מֵישַׁ֔ךְ וְלַעֲזַרְיָ֖ה עֲבֵ֥ד נְגֽוֹ עֲבֵ֥ד נְגֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.assigned to them the.chief of the.officials names and he.assigned to Daniel Belteshazzar and to Hananiah Shadrach and to Mishael Meshach and to Azariah Abednego Abednego

*JPS 1917:* And the chief of the officers gave names unto them: unto Daniel he gave the name of Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, of Shadrach; and to Mishael, of Meshach; and to Azariah, of Abed-nego.

[Daniel 10:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.10.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.10.1/#tree)

בִּשְׁנַ֣ת שָׁל֗וֹשׁ לְכ֙וֹרֶשׁ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ פָּרַ֔ס דָּבָר֙ נִגְלָ֣ה לְדָֽנִיֵּ֔אל אֲשֶׁר־נִקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּ֑ר וֶאֱמֶ֤ת הַדָּבָר֙ וְצָבָ֣א גָד֔וֹל וּבִין֙ אֶת־הַדָּבָ֔ר וּבִ֥ינָה ל֖וֹ בַּמַּרְאֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* in year three of Cyrus the.king of.Persia a.word it.was.revealed to Daniel whom it.had.been.called name his Belteshazzar and.\[was\] truth the word and a.war great and he.understood (et) the word and understanding \[belonged\].to him by the vision

*JPS 1917:* In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the word was true, even a great warfare; and he gave heed to the word, and had understanding of the vision.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1095.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1095/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).