Rabshakeh
It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of
Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the
LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for
the remnant that are left....
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It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the
living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God
hath heard: wherefore lift up [thy] prayer for the remnant
that is left....
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And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh
from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against
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 fuller's field....
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Rabshakeh, also Rab-shakeh and Rabsaces (Hebrew: רַבְשָׁקֵה, Modern
Ravshake Tiberian Raḇšāqē; Greek: Ραψακης Rapsakēs; Latin:
Rabsaces) Neo-Aramaic: (ܪܵܒܫܵܩܹܐ) This name meaning chief of the
princes was given to the chief cup-bearer or the vizier of the
Assyrian royal court.
The Bible mentions it for one of Sennacherib's messengers to
Hezekia...
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rab'-sha-ke, rab-sha'-ke (rabhshaqeh): A compound word, the
first part, rabh, indicating "head" or "chief" (see RAB-MAG;
RAB-SARIS). The second part, which in the Aramaic, probably
meant "cupbearer," had in this connection and elsewhere,
according to later discoveries, an extended significance,
and meant chief officer, i.e. chief of the heads ...
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-(A title of an Assyrian officer)
-Sent by Sennacherib against Jerusalem; undertakes to cause
disloyalty to Hezekiah and the surrender of Jerusalem
by a
speech in the Jews' native language
2Ki 18:17-36; 19:4,8; Isa 36; 37...
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(chief cupbearer), 2Ki 18:1..., 19:1 ...; Isa 36:1 ..., 37:1
... one of the officers of the king of Assyria sent against
Jerusalem in the reign of Hezekiah. [HEZEKIAH] (B.C. 713.) The
English version takes Rabshakeh as the name of a person; but
it is more probably the name of the office which he held at
the court, that of chief cupbearer....
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chief of the princes, the name given to the chief cup-bearer
or
the vizier of the Assyrian court; one of Sennacherib's
messengers to Hezekiah. See the speech he delivered,
in the
Hebrew language, in the hearing of all the people, as
he stood
near the wall on the north side of the city (2 Kings
18:17-37).
He and the other envoys returned to...
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i.e. "chief cupbearer" (2 Kings 18-19; Isaiah 36-37). Sent
by Sennacherib with Tartan who probably had chief command
(first in 2 Kings 18:17; Isaiah 20:1) of an army to induce
Jerusalem by threats and promises to surrender. Spokesman
for Tartan and Rabsaris. Possibly a Jewish deserter and
apostate. This is favored by his familiarity with the H...
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