Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2876
טַבָּח
tabbachtab-bawkh'
guard
32 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ṭabbâch
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2876is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2876
properly, a butcher; hence, a lifeguardsman (because he was acting as an executioner); also a cook (usually slaughtering the animal for food)
The King James renders it: cook, guard.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
tabbach is rendered "guard". It stands 32 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Seventeen of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 37:36Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
Genesis 37:36הַטַּבָּחִֽים׃ פ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seventeen of the word's thirty-two uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- bodyguards24
- the bodyguards6
- the cook1
- to the cook1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 32, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- טַבָּחִֽים׃6
- טַבָּחִ֖ים5
- טַבָּחִ֑ים4
- טַבָּחִ֔ים4
- טַבָּחִ֗ים3
- הַטַּבָּחִ֔ים2
- טַבָּחִ֛ים2
- הַ֠טַּבָּח1
- הַטַבָּחִ֖ים1
- הַטַּבָּחִים֙1
- הַטַּבָּחִ֧ים1
- הַטַּבָּחִֽים׃ פ1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural24HNcmpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural6HTd/Ncmpa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
Genesis
six uses
Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
- הַטַּבָּחִֽים׃ פhatabachimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bodyguards
Meanwhile, Joseph had been taken down to Egypt, where an Egyptian named Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
- הַטַּבָּחִים֙hatabachimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bodyguards
and imprisoned them in the house of the captain of the guard, the same prison where Joseph was confined.
- הַטַבָּחִ֖יםhatabachimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bodyguards
The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he became their personal attendant. After they had been in custody for some time,
- הַטַּבָּחִ֧יםhatabachimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bodyguards
Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he put me and the chief baker in the custody of the captain of the guard.
- הַטַּבָּחִ֔יםhatabachimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bodyguards
Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.
- הַטַּבָּחִ֔יםhatabachimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the bodyguards
1 Samuel
two uses
And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion I gave you and told you to set aside.”
- לַטַּבָּ֔חlatabachpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the cook
So the cook picked up the leg and what was attached to it and set it before Saul. Then Samuel said, “Here is what was kept back. It was set apart for you. Eat, for it has been kept for you for this occasion, from the time I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul dined with Samuel that day.
- הַ֠טַּבָּחhatabochthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the cook
2 Kings
seven uses
On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
- טַבָּחִ֛יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
- טַבָּחִֽים׃tabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population.
- טַבָּחִֽים׃tabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
But the captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
- טַבָּחִ֑יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
The captain of the guard also took away the censers and sprinkling bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver.
- טַבָּחִֽים׃tabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
- טַבָּחִ֗יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
- טַבָּחִ֑יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
Jeremiah
seventeen uses
Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.
- טַבָּחִ֖יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
But Nebuzaradan left behind in the land of Judah some of the poor people who had no property, and at that time he gave them vineyards and fields.
- טַבָּחִ֖יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had given orders about Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, saying,
- טַבָּחִ֖יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
So Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, Nebushazban the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the captains of the king of Babylon
- טַבָּחִ֗יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were being exiled to Babylon.
- טַבָּחִ֖יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
The captain of the guard found Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God decreed this disaster on this place,
- טַבָּחִ֖יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
But before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, “Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go anywhere else that seems right.” Then the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.
- טַבָּחִ֛יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people of Mizpah—the daughters of the king along with all the others who remained in Mizpah—over whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and set off to cross over to the Ammonites.
- טַבָּחִ֔יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters, and everyone whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had allowed to remain with Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, as well as Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.
- טַבָּחִ֔יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
- טַבָּחִ֔יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.
- טַבָּחִֽים׃tabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen.
- טַבָּחִֽים׃tabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
But Nebuzaradan captain of the guard left behind some of the poorest of the land to tend the vineyards and fields.
- טַבָּחִ֑יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
The captain of the guard also took away the basins, censers, sprinkling bowls, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls—anything made of pure gold or fine silver.
- טַבָּחִֽים׃tabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
- טַבָּחִ֗יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
- טַבָּחִ֑יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
in Nebuchadnezzar’s twenty-third year, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away 745 Jews. So in all, 4,600 people were taken away.
- טַבָּחִ֔יםtabachimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: bodyguards
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.