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HebrewH4453Noun (Masculine)

מֶלְצָר

mel.tsar

2Occurrences
H4453Strong's #
Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

the butler or other officer in the Babylonian court

of Persian derivation;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
guardian, an officer of the court or Melzar - a man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at ; also translated "steward"

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

H:N-M

Full Description

H:N-M

Occurrences

מֶלְצָר appears 2 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Daniel
2

Key Passages

Daniel 1:11BSB

Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

Daniel 1:16BSB

So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.