Strong's Lexicon

H1490

H1490 — גִּזבָּר

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

Aramaicgizbarnoun mascOccurrences: 1TWOT: 2653

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H1490
Word:גִּזבָּר
Part of Speech:noun masc
Etymology:(Aramaic) corresponding to H1489
Language:Aramaic
Occurrences:1
Transliteration:gizbar
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:ghiz-bawr'
Meaning:1. treasurer
KJV Renderings:Not listed

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB9406

[גִּזְבָּר] noun masculine treasurer (Persian loan-word (Scheft81); ᵑ7 , Syriac, Biblical Hebrew; K§ 64, 3; in Babylonian ganzabaru PeiserZAW xvii (1897). 347); — plural emphatic גִּזְבָּרַיָּא Ezra 7:21. — see גְּדָֽבְרַיָּא. above


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

גזבר (giz-bahr’)

Ezra 7:21

KJV: And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, shall require of you, it be done speedily,
EHCC: do make a decree to all the treasurers

Psalms 71:6

KJV: By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother’s bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee.
EHCC: thou art he that took me out of my mother's |
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