tabach · guard

What it means

tabach (טַבָּח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “guard”.

Of the king, those in charge of executions; in other passages, cook or butcher.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The king's guards.
2. The one who prepares the food in the house or at the table of a king or leader.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• guard ×30
• cook ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Kings×7
• Jeremiah×17

• Genesis 37:36

  Meanwhile the Medanites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the chief of the guard.

• Genesis 39:1

  Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the chief of the guard, an Egyptian man, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.

• Genesis 40:3

  and he put them in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.

• Genesis 40:4

  The chief of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them; and they were some days in custody.

• Genesis 41:10

  Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, me and the chief of the bakers.

• Genesis 41:12

  A young man was there with us, a Hebrew, a slave of the chief of the guard. We told him, and he interpreted for us our dreams; to each according to his dream he interpreted.

• 1 Samuel 9:23

  And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion that I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Put it aside with you.’”

• 1 Samuel 9:24

  And the cook lifted up the thigh and what was on it and set it before Saul. And he said, “Look, what has been kept back! Set it before you and eat, for it has been kept for you for the appointed time, since I said, ‘I have invited the people.’” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

• 2 Kings 25:8

  In the fifth month, on the seventh of the month —that was year nineteen of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon— Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 25:10

  And the walls around Jerusalem all the force of the Chaldeans that was with the chief of the guard tore down.

• 2 Kings 25:11

  The rest of the people who were left in the city, and the deserters who had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard carried into exile.

• 2 Kings 25:12

  But of the poorest of the land the chief of the guard left some as vinedressers and farmers.

• 2 Kings 25:15

  The firepans and the bowls, what was gold, in gold, and what was silver, in silver, the chief of the guard took.

• 2 Kings 25:18

  The chief of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold;

• 2 Kings 25:20

  Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard took them and led them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

• Jeremiah 39:9

  The rest of the people who were left in the city, and the deserters who had gone over to him, and the rest of the people who were left, Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard carried into exile to Babylon.

• Jeremiah 39:10

  But of the people, the poor who had nothing Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard left in the land of Judah, and he gave them vineyards and fields on that day.

• Jeremiah 39:11

  And Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon gave orders concerning Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard, saying,

• Jeremiah 39:13

  So Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard sent, and Nebushazban the Rabsaris, and Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the great men of the king of Babylon,

• Jeremiah 40:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH after Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he took him, and he was bound in fetters among all the exiles of Jerusalem and Judah who were being carried into exile to Babylon.

• Jeremiah 40:2

  And the chief of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, “YHWH your Elohim spoke this evil against this place;

• Jeremiah 40:5

  And as he had not yet turned back, he said, “Go back to Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and live with him among the people; or wherever it is right in your eyes to go, go.” And the chief of the guard gave him provisions and a gift, and let him go.

• Jeremiah 41:10

  Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people who were at Mizpah, the daughters of the king and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard had entrusted to Gedaliah son of Ahikam; Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and went to cross over to the sons of Ammon.

• Jeremiah 43:6

  the men and the women and the little ones and the daughters of the king, and every person whom Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard had left with Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch son of Neriah.

• Jeremiah 52:12

  In the fifth month, on the tenth of the month —that was year nineteen of King Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon— Nebuzaradan, the chief of the guard, came —he stood before the king of Babylon— into Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 52:14

  And all the walls around Jerusalem all the force of the Chaldeans that was with the chief of the guard tore down.

• Jeremiah 52:15

  And of the poorest of the people, and the rest of the people who were left in the city, and the deserters who had gone over to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard carried into exile.

• Jeremiah 52:16

  But of the poorest of the land Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard left some as vinedressers and farmers.

• Jeremiah 52:19

  The cups, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the libation bowls, what was gold, in gold, and what was silver, in silver, the chief of the guard took.

• Jeremiah 52:24

  The chief of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold;

• Jeremiah 52:26

  Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard took them and led them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

• Jeremiah 52:30

  in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard carried into exile Jews, seven hundred and forty-five persons; all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.