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Strong's #2877 - טַבָּח
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- bodyguard, executioner, guardsmen
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2227) hbu (תהבהה ThBHh) AC: Slaughter CO: Flesh AB: ?: [from: hb]
V) hbu (תהבהה ThBHh) - Slaughter: KJV (11): (vf: Paal) kill, slaughter, slay - Strongs: H2873 (טָבַח)
Nm) hbu (תהבהה ThBHh) - I. Slaughter:The act of slaughtering. Also the meat of the slaughter. II. Guard:As one who prevents a slaughter of a ruler. [Hebrew and Aramaic] III. Cook:One who slaughters animals for food. KJV (45): slaughter, slay, sore, beast, guard, cook - Strongs: H2874 (טֶבַח), H2876 (טַבָּח), H2877 (טַבָּח)
Nf1) ehbu (תהבההה ThBHhH) - Cook: One who slaughters animals for food. KJV (1): cook - Strongs: H2879 (טַבָּחָה)
am) hbum (מתהבהה MThBHh) - Slaughter: KJV (1): slaughter - Strongs: H4293 (מַטְבֵּחַ)
ef1) ehbiu (תהיבההה ThYBHhH) - Slaughter: The act of slaughtering. Also the meat of the slaughter. KJV (3): flesh, slaughter - Strongs: H2878 (טִבְחָה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
טַבָּח m. a slayer, hence
(1) a cook, 1 Samuel 9:23, 24 1 Samuel 9:24. Arab. طَبَّاخُ id.
(2) an executioner, hence one of the king’s guard, whose business it was in the East to inflict capital punishments. רַב־טַבָּחִים 2 Kings 25:8, seq.; Jeremiah 39:9, seq.; and שַׂר־הַטַּבָּחִים Genesis 37:36, 39:1 40:3, Genesis 40:4, 41:10, 12 Genesis 41:12, “the captain of the executioners,” i.e. of the body guard; pretty much the same as the Kapijji-Pasha of the modern Turkish court. [“In Egypt he had a public prison in his house, Genesis 40:3 in Babylon, Nebuzaradan who held this office, commanded also a part of the royal army, Jeremiah 39:13, 52:15.” Ges. add.]
טַבָּח Chald. i.q. Hebr. No. 2, an executioner, hence one of the king’s guard, Daniel 2:14.
