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# תַּרְתָּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8661

**field-marshal** — 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

field-marshal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8661/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תַּרְתָּן: n.m. field-marshal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8661/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. title of Assyrian general = field-marshal (loan-word from Assyrian tartânu, turtânu DlWB 716 TieleGesch. 495 f. PinchesHast. DB Tartan JohnsEncy. Bib. Id.);—Is 20:1 2 K 18:17 (+ רַב־סָרִיס, רַב־שָׁקֵה; only this last in ‖ Is 36:2).

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, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] commander in chief (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 20:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.20.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.20.1/#tree)

בִּשְׁנַ֨ת בֹּ֤א תַרְתָּן֙ אַשְׁדּ֔וֹדָה בִּשְׁלֹ֣ח אֹת֔וֹ סַֽרְג֖וֹן מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֑וּר וַיִּלָּ֥חֶם בְּאַשְׁדּ֖וֹד וַֽיִּלְכְּדָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* in the.year came \[the\].commander.in.chief to Ashdod when sent him Sargon the.king of.Assyria and he.fought against Ashdod and he captured.it

*JPS 1917:* In the year that Tartan came into Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and took it;

[2 Kings 18:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.17/#tree)

וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח מֶֽלֶךְ־אַשּׁ֡וּר אֶת־תַּרְתָּ֥ן וְאֶת־רַב־סָרִ֣יס ׀ וְאֶת־רַב־שָׁקֵ֨ה מִן־לָכִ֜ישׁ אֶל־הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ חִזְקִיָּ֛הוּ בְּחֵ֥יל כָּבֵ֖ד יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם וַֽיַּעֲלוּ֙ וַיָּבֹ֣אוּ יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם וַיַּעֲל֣וּ וַיָּבֹ֗אוּ וַיַּֽעַמְדוּ֙ בִּתְעָלַת֙ הַבְּרֵכָ֣ה הָֽעֶלְיוֹנָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֕ר בִּמְסִלַּ֖ת שְׂדֵ֥ה כוֹבֵֽס׃

*Word for word:* and he.sent the.king of.Assyria (et) \[the\].commander.in.chief and (et) \[the\].Rab- saris and (et) \[the\].Rab- shaqeh from Lachish to the king Hezekiah with an.army massive Jerusalem and they.went.up and they.came Jerusalem and they.went.up and they.came and they.stood at the.conduit of the.pool (the) upper which \[is\].on.\[the\] highway of.\[the\].field of.\[the\].washer

*JPS 1917:* And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fullers' field.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8661.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8661/): 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).