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# מֶלְצָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4453

**guardian** — 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

guardian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4453/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מֶלְצָר: n.m. guardian [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4453/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. a Bab. title; dubious; perhaps guardian? (SchrCOT Dn 1:11 DlBaer Dn xi conj. loan-word from Assyrian maṣ(ṣ)aru, keeper, guardian, cf. DlHWB 423; hardly connected with (mod.) Pers. mulsaru ‘kellermeister’ (cf. Meinh), v. against this Bevan);—only c. art. הַמּ׳ Dn 1:11, 16.

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

## In the verses

[Daniel 1:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.11/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר דָּנִיֵּ֖אל אֶל־הַמֶּלְצַ֑ר אֲשֶׁ֤ר מִנָּה֙ שַׂ֣ר הַסָּֽרִיסִ֔ים עַל־דָּנִיֵּ֣אל חֲנַנְיָ֔ה מִֽישָׁאֵ֖ל וַעֲזַרְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Daniel to the guardian whom he.had.assigned the.chief of the.officials over Daniel Hananiah Mishael and Azariah

*JPS 1917:* Then said Daniel to the steward, whom the chief of the officers had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

[Daniel 1:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/DAN.1.16/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י הַמֶּלְצַ֗ר נֹשֵׂא֙ אֶת־פַּתְבָּגָ֔ם וְיֵ֖ין מִשְׁתֵּיהֶ֑ם וְנֹתֵ֥ן לָהֶ֖ם זֵרְעֹנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.was the guardian taking.away (et) delicaci\[es\] their and the.wine their.drink their and giving to them vegetables

*JPS 1917:* So the steward took away their food, and the wine that they should drink, and gave them pulse.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4453/): 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).