Lexicon meltsar: perhaps guardian Original Word: הַמֶּלְצַרPart of Speech: Noun Masculine Transliteration: meltsar Phonetic Spelling: (mel-tsawr') Short Definition: overseer NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof foreign origin Definitionperhaps guardian NASB Translationoverseer (2).
Brown-Driver-Briggs מֶלְצָר noun masculine a Babylonian title; dubious; perhaps guardian ? (Schr COT Daniel 1:11 Dl Baer Dn xi conjecture loan-word from Assyrian maƒ(ƒ)aru, keeper, guardian, compare Dl HWB 423; hardly connected with (modern) Persian mulsaru 'Kellermeister' (compare Meinh.), see against this Bev); — only with article ׳הַמּ Daniel 1:11,16. Strong's Melzar Of Persian derivation; the butler or other officer in the Babylonian court -- Melzar. |
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