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title: טַבָּח — cook · The Tanakh dictionary
description: טַבָּח (2876), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 32 times: cook. BDB 1906: n.m. cook 2.guardsman. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# טַבָּח

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«טַבָּח» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cook** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 32 times · **Key:** 2876 · **BDB:** טַבָּח

### Glosses

of.\[the\].bodyguards (24); the.bodyguards (6); cook (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cook [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2876/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. cook 2.guardsman [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2876/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 S 9:23 1. cook, 2.guardsman;— cook (who also killed the animal for food and served it) טַבָּח abs. 1 S 9:23, 24†. elsewhere only pl. טַבָּחִים guardsmen, bodyguard (orig. royal slaughterers; v. RSOTJC 426 (262); Sem i. 1st ed., 396); always in the foll. combinations: שַׂר הַטּ׳ captain of Pharaoh’s bodyguard Gn 37:36; 39:1 (both J), 40:3, 4; 41:10, 12 (all E); רַב־ט׳ chief of Nebuchadr.’s bodyguard 2 K 25:8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 18, 20 Je 39:9 + 16 times Je (hence Aramaic רַב טַבָּחַיָּא Dn 2:14).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «טַבָּח» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2876/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 25:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.10/)

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וְאֶת־חוֹמֹ֥ת יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם סָבִ֑יב נָֽתְצוּ֙ כָּל־חֵ֣יל כַּשְׂדִּ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר רַב־טַבָּחִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the.walls of.Jerusalem all.around they.pulled.down all the.army of.\[the\].Chaldeans which \[was.the\].chief of.\[the\].bodyguards

*JPS 1917:* And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls of Jerusalem round about.

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[2 Kings 25:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.25.12/)

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וּמִדַּלַּ֣ת הָאָ֔רֶץ הִשְׁאִ֖יר רַב־טַבָּחִ֑ים לְכֹֽרְמִ֖ים וּלְיֹגְבִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and some of.the.poor of the.land he.left.behind \[the\].chief of.\[the\].bodyguards to vinedressers and to husbandmen

*JPS 1917:* But the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

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