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# נִסְרֹךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5268

**Nisroch** — 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

Nisroch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5268/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִסְרֹךְ: n.pr.div. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5268/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.div. Assyrian god, worshipped by Sennach., 2 K 19:37 = Is 37:38; 𝔊 Εσδραχ, A Εσθραχ, 𝔊L Ασραχ (K); 𝔊 Νασαραχ, א Ασαρακ, A Ασαραχ (Is); JosAnt. x. 1, 5 Αρασκη; no such god in cuneif. inscr.; see views in MeinhJesaiaerzählungen (1898) ad loc.; crpt. form of Nusku (= נסוך) according to HalJAs. xiii (1879), 387 = Mél. de Crit. 177 Muss-ArnoltJBL xi. 1 (1892), 86; Hbr. vii. 89 R. 17; Nusku is a solar deity, cf. JastrRel. Bab. 220 f.

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: of Nisroch (2).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 19:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.37/#tree)

וַיְהִי֩ ה֨וּא מִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֜ה בֵּ֣ית ׀ נִסְרֹ֣ךְ אֱלֹהָ֗יו וְֽאַדְרַמֶּ֨לֶךְ וְשַׂרְאֶ֤צֶר בָּנָיו֙הִכֻּ֣הוּ בַחֶ֔רֶב וְהֵ֥מָּה נִמְלְט֖וּ אֶ֣רֶץ אֲרָרָ֑ט וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ אֵֽסַר־חַדֹּ֥ןאֵֽסַר־חַדֹּ֥ן בְּנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.was he \[was\].bowing.down the.house of.Nisroch god his and Adrammelech and Sharezer sons his they struck.him.down with the sword and they they.escaped the.land of.Ararat and he.became.king Esarhaddon Esarhaddon son his in place.of.him

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sarezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

[Isaiah 37:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.38/#tree)

וַיְהִי֩ ה֨וּא מִֽשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֜ה בֵּ֣ית ׀ נִסְרֹ֣ךְ אֱלֹהָ֗יו וְֽאַדְרַמֶּ֨לֶךְ וְשַׂרְאֶ֤צֶר בָּנָיו֙ הִכֻּ֣הוּ בַחֶ֔רֶב וְהֵ֥מָּה נִמְלְט֖וּ אֶ֣רֶץ אֲרָרָ֑ט וַיִּמְלֹ֛ךְ אֵֽסַר־חַדֹּ֥ןאֵֽסַר־חַדֹּ֥ן בְּנ֖וֹ תַּחְתָּֽיו׃ס

*Word for word:* and it.was he \[was\].bowing.down the.house of.Nisroch god his and Adrammelech and Sharezer sons his they struck.him.down with the sword and they they.escaped the.land of.Ararat and he.became.king Esarhaddon Esarhaddon son his in place.of.him

*JPS 1917:* And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sarezer his sons smote him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5268.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5268/): 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).