Lexical Summary meltsar: perhaps guardian Original Word: מֶלְצָרTransliteration: meltsar Phonetic Spelling: (mel-tsawr') Part of Speech: Noun Masculine Short Definition: perhaps guardian Meaning: the butler, other officer in the Babylonian court Strong's Concordance Melzar Of Persian derivation; the butler or other officer in the Babylonian court -- Melzar. Brown-Driver-Briggs H4453. meltsar מֶלְצָר noun masculine a Babylonian title; dubious; perhaps guardian ? (SchrCOT Daniel 1:11 DlBaer Dn xi conjecture loan-word from Assyrian maƒ(ƒ)aru, keeper, guardian, compare DlHWB 423; hardly connected with (modern) Persian mulsaru 'Kellermeister' (compare Meinh.), see against this Bev); — only with article ׳הַמּ 1:11, 16. |
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