Lexical Summary etser: perhaps restraint Original Word: עֶצֶרTransliteration: etser Phonetic Spelling: (eh'-tser) Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: perhaps restraint Meaning: perhaps restraint Strong's Concordance magistrate From atsar; restraint -- + magistrate. see HEBREW atsar Brown-Driver-Briggs H6114. etser עֶ֫צֶר noun [masculine] restraint (?), only ע ׳יוֺרֵשׁ Judges 18:7 a possessor of restraint, i.e. ruler, but ᵑ9 ᵐ5 wealth, so Thes and others, text very dubious, compare GFM Bu conjecture that ׳ע combines readings אֹצָר and עשֶׁר. |
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