Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H7262
רַבְשָׁקֵה
Rabshaqehrab-shaw-kay'
Rabshakeh
32 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Rabshâqêh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7262is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7262
Rabshakeh, a Babylonian official
The King James renders it: Rabshakeh.
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
Rabshaqeh is rendered "Rabshakeh". It stands 32 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Sixteen of the uses stand in 2 Kings, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Kings 18:17Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
2 Kings 18:17רַב־
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- chief16
- commander16
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.
The words it stands beside
All 32, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 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
- רַב־16
- שָׁקֵ֔ה6
- שָׁקֵ֗ה6
- שָׁקֵ֨ה2
- שָׁקֵֽה׃1
- שָׁקֵֽה׃ ס1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular32HNtmsa
2 Kings
sixteen uses
Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֨הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֔הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, along with Shebnah and Joah, said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak with us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֗הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֗הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria!
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֔הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵֽה׃shakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֗הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֔הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
Isaiah
sixteen uses
And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh, with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And he stopped by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֨הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֔הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֗הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֗הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֔הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
Then Hilkiah’s son Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Asaph’s son Joah the recorder came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and they relayed to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵֽה׃ סshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֗הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
- רַב־rav-noun · masculine singulartagged: chief
- שָׁקֵ֔הshakehnoun · masculine singulartagged: commander
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.