H2876

טַבָּח

tab.bachH:N-M

guard

1) executioner, cook, bodyguard, guardsman 1a) cook (who also killed the animal for food) 1b) guardsmen, bodyguard Aramaic equivalent: tab.bach (טַבָּח "guardsman" H2877)

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

טַבָּח noun masculine^{1Sam 9:23}

1. cook,

2. guardsman; —

1. cook (who also killed the animal for food and served it) טַבָּח absolute 1Sam 9:23; 1Sam 9:24 .

2. elsewhere only plural טַבָּחִים guardsmen, bodyguard (originally royal slaughterers; see RS^{OTJC 426} (262); Semitic i. 1st ed., 396); always in the following combinations: ׳שַׂר הַטּ captain of Pharaoh's bodyguard Gen 37:36; Gen 39:1 (both J), Gen 40:3; Gen 40:4; Gen 41:10; Gen 41:12 (all E); ׳רַבטֿ chief of Nebuchadrezzar's bodyguard 2Kgs 25:8; 2Kgs 25:10; 2Kgs 25:11; 2Kgs 25:12; 2Kgs 25:15; 2Kgs 25:18; 2Kgs 25:20; Jer 39:9 + 16 t. Jeremiah (hence Aramaic רַב טַבָּחַיָּא Dan 2:14).

[טַבָּח] noun masculine guardsman (see Biblical Hebrew id.; √ טבח); — plural emphatic טַבָּחַיָא Dan 2:14.

25 occurrences

Genesis (5), I Samuel (2), II Kings (4), Jeremiah (14)