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# סַנְחֵרִיב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5576

**Sennacherib** — used 13 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

Sennacherib [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5576/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סַנְחֵרִיב: n.pr.m. Sennacherib [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5576/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Sennacherib (= Sinaḫê-irba, Sin multiplied brothers, SchrCOT 2 K 18:13);—son of Sargon and father of Esarhaddon, king of Assyria (b. c. 705–681; cf. TieleGesch. 285 ff.); 2 K 18:13; 19:16, 20, 36 = Is 36:1; 37:17, 21, 37; 2 Ch 32:1, 2, 9, 10, 22 (all as above, except סַנְחֵרִב 2 K 19:20); 𝔊 Σενναχηρειμ, 𝔊L Σενναχειρειμ; Σεναχήριβος JosAnt. x. 1 ff.; Σαναχάρβον (acc.) Herodot.ii. 141.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 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: Sennacherib (10); of Sennacherib (3).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 19:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.19.36/#tree)

וַיִּסַּ֣ע וַיֵּ֔לֶךְ וַיָּ֖שָׁב סַנְחֵרִ֣יב מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֑וּר וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בְּנִֽינְוֵֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.set.out and he.went and he.returned Sennacherib the.king of.Assyria and he.remained in Nineveh

*JPS 1917:* So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

[Isaiah 37:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.37.37/#tree)

וַיִּסַּ֣ע וַיֵּ֔לֶךְ וַיָּ֖שָׁב סַנְחֵרִ֣יב מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֑וּר וַיֵּ֖שֶׁב בְּנִֽינְוֵֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.set.out and he.went and he.returned Sennacherib the.king of.Assyria and he.remained in Nineveh

*JPS 1917:* So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5576.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5576/): 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).