טִפְסַר
tifsar · officer
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H2951 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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tifsar (טִפְסַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “officer”.
Military commander.
How to say it
tif·sar
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
- A chief who gathers and arrays the soldiers for war.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- officer ×1
- officials ×1
Where it appears
- Jeremiah 51:27
Lift up a banner in the land; blow the horn among the nations; consecrate nations against her; summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz; appoint against her an officer; bring up horses like bristling locusts.
- Nahum 3:17
Your guards are like the locust, and your officials like a swarm of grasshoppers that camp in the walls on a day of cold; the sun rises, and they flee, and their place is not known; where are they?