תַּרְתָּן
tartan · Tartan
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8661 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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tartan (תַּרְתָּן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Tartan”.
Not a personal name but the title of the commander of the army of the king of Assyria (2 Kings 18:17; Isaiah 20:1).
How to say it
tar·tan
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
- Title of the Assyrian king's army commander.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- 2 Kings 18:17
The king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah with a large force to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem; they went up and came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway of the Launderer’s Field.
- Isaiah 20:1
In the year that the Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and captured it,