nevuchadnetsar · Nebuchadnezzar

What it means

nevuchadnetsar (נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Nebuchadnezzar”.

King of Babylon who subdued Judah, took Jerusalem, burned the house of YHWH and took the people into exile (2 Kings 24-25; Jeremiah; Daniel 1-4). The Hebrew writes his name in several forms.

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.

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Kings×6
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×4
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×1
• Jeremiah×37
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×4

• 2 Kings 24:1

  In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.

• 2 Kings 24:10

  At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

• 2 Kings 24:11

  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city while his servants were besieging it.

• 2 Kings 25:1

  And it happened, in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his force, against Jerusalem; he encamped against it, and they built against it a siege wall all around.

• 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 25:22

  As for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan.

• 1 Chronicles 6:15

  and Jehozadak went when YHWH carried into exile Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.

• 2 Chronicles 36:6

  Against him Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and bound him with bronze fetters to carry him to Babylon.

• 2 Chronicles 36:7

  Nebuchadnezzar brought some of the utensils of the house of YHWH to Babylon and put them in his palace in Babylon.

• 2 Chronicles 36:10

  At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and had him brought to Babylon, with the precious utensils of the house of YHWH, and made king over Judah and Jerusalem Zedekiah his brother.

• 2 Chronicles 36:13

  He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by Elohim; and he stiffened his neck and made firm his heart against returning to YHWH, the Elohim of Israel.

• Ezra 1:7

  And King Cyrus brought out the utensils of the house of YHWH that Nebuchadnezzar had brought out from Jerusalem and had put them in the house of his god.

• Nehemiah 7:6

  These are the sons of the province who came up from the captivity of the exiles, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile, and they returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his city,

• Esther 2:6

  who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem with the exiles who had been carried into exile with Jeconiah, king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had carried into exile.

• Jeremiah 21:2

  “Inquire, please, of YHWH for us, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is fighting against us; perhaps YHWH will deal with us according to all his wonders, and he will withdraw from us.”

• Jeremiah 21:7

  And afterward, declares YHWH, I will give Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life; and he will strike them with the edge of the sword; he will not pity them, and he will not spare, and he will not have compassion.’

• Jeremiah 22:25

  And I will give you into the hand of those who seek your life, and into the hand of those whom you dread, before them, and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.

• Jeremiah 24:1

  YHWH showed me, and look, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of YHWH, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and the smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.

• Jeremiah 25:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah —that was the first year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon—

• Jeremiah 25:9

  look, I am sending and will take all the clans of the north, declares YHWH, and I am sending to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around; and I will devote them to destruction, and make them a horror and a hissing and eternal ruins.

• Jeremiah 27:6

  And now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant; and even the animals of the field I have given him to serve him.

• Jeremiah 27:8

  And it will be: the nation or the kingdom that will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, with the sword and with the famine and with the pestilence I will punish that nation, declares YHWH, until I have finished off them by his hand.

• Jeremiah 27:20

  which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he carried into exile Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;

• Jeremiah 28:3

  Within two years' time I will bring back to this place all the vessels of the house of YHWH that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took from this place and carried them to Babylon.

• Jeremiah 28:11

  And Hananiah spoke before the eyes of all the people, saying: “Thus says YHWH: Like this I will break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon within two years' time from off the neck of all the nations.” And Jeremiah the prophet went his way.

• Jeremiah 28:14

  For thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: A yoke of iron I have put on the neck of all these nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and they will serve him; and even the animals of the field I have given him.’”

• Jeremiah 29:1

  And these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the rest of the elders of the exile, and to the priests and to the prophets and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,

• Jeremiah 29:3

  by the hand of Eleasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, to Babylon, saying:

• Jeremiah 29:21

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel, concerning Ahab son of Kolaiah and concerning Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying to you falsehood in my name: Look, I am giving them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will strike them down before your eyes.

• Jeremiah 32:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, that was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar.

• Jeremiah 32:28

  Therefore thus says YHWH: Look, I am giving this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will capture it.

• Jeremiah 34:1

  The word that came to Jeremiah from YHWH, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms of the earth under the dominion of his hand and all the peoples were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying:

• Jeremiah 35:11

  But it happened, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, that we said, ‘Come, and let us go to Jerusalem, because of the army of the Chaldeans and because of the army of Aram’; so we have lived in Jerusalem.”

• Jeremiah 37:1

  And King Zedekiah son of Josiah reigned in place of Coniah son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

• Jeremiah 39:1

  In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his force came against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

• Jeremiah 39:5

  The force of the Chaldeans pursued after them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and they took him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he pronounced judgments against him.

• Jeremiah 39:11

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

• Jeremiah 43:10

  and say to them, ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Look, I am sending, and I will take Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.

• Jeremiah 44:30

  Thus says YHWH: Look, I am giving Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies and into the hand of those who seek his life, as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, his enemy and the one who sought his life.”

• Jeremiah 46:2

  Concerning Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah, king of Judah:

And 19 more times.