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# טַבָּח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2876

**cook** — used 32 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

cook [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2876/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טַבָּח: n.m. cook 2.guardsman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2876/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 S 9:23 1. cook, 2.guardsman;— cook (who also killed the animal for food and served it) טַבָּח abs. 1 S 9:23, 24†. elsewhere only pl. טַבָּחִים guardsmen, bodyguard (orig. royal slaughterers; v. RSOTJC 426 (262); Sem i. 1st ed., 396); always in the foll. combinations: שַׂר הַטּ׳ captain of Pharaoh’s bodyguard Gn 37:36; 39:1 (both J), 40:3, 4; 41:10, 12 (all E); רַב־ט׳ chief of Nebuchadr.’s bodyguard 2 K 25:8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 18, 20 Je 39:9 + 16 times Je (hence Aramaic רַב טַבָּחַיָּא Dn 2:14).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of \[the\] bodyguards (24); the bodyguards (6); cook (2).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 25:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.10/#tree)

וְאֶת־חוֹמֹ֥ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם סָבִ֑יב נָֽתְצוּ֙ כָּל־חֵ֣יל כַּשְׂדִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר רַב־טַבָּחִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.walls of.Jerusalem all.around they.pulled.down all the.army of.\[the\].Chaldeans which \[was.the\].chief of.\[the\].bodyguards

*JPS 1917:* And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

[2 Kings 25:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.12/#tree)

וּמִדַּלַּ֣ת הָאָ֔רֶץ הִשְׁאִ֖יר רַב־טַבָּחִ֑ים לְכֹֽרְמִ֖ים וּלְיֹגְבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and some of.the.poor of the.land he.left.behind \[the\].chief of.\[the\].bodyguards to vinedressers and to husbandmen

*JPS 1917:* But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2876.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2876/): 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).