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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #1095 - בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר

Transliteration

Bêlṭᵉshaʼtstsar

Phonetics

bale-tesh-ats-tsar'

Origin

of foreign derivation

Parts of Speech

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Belteshazzar = “lord of the straitened’s treasure”

1) the 4th of the greater prophets, taken as hostage in the first deportation to Babylon; because of the gift of God of the interpretation of dreams, he became the 2nd in command of the Babylon empire and lasted through the end of the Babylonian empire and into the Persian empire. His prophecies are the key to the understanding of end time events. Noted for his purity and holiness by contemporary prophet, Ezekiel

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (2)

Daniel 2

NAS (2)

Daniel 2

HCS (2)

Daniel 2

BSB (2)

Daniel 2

ESV (2)

Daniel 2

WEB (2)

Daniel 2

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּר proper name, masculine Daniel 1:7, בֵּלְטְאשַׁצַּ֑ר Daniel 10:1 (probably = Babylonian balâtƒu-uƒur, protect his life! COT Daniel 1:7 Dl in BD^{Dn. p. ix}; Hoffm^{ZA 1887,56} conjecture אצר [ר]בלט שׁ Bala‰ ( = good Saturn?) protect the king! — Daniel 4:5 connected with Bel, but name then inexplicable), name given to Daniel by Nebuchadnezzar.

בְּלִי, בְּלִימָה, בְּלִיַּעַל see below בלה.

List of Word Forms

בֵּ֣לְטְשַׁאצַּ֗ר בֵּלְטְשַׁאצַּ֑ר בלטשאצר bê·lə·ṭə·šaṣ·ṣar bêləṭəšaṣṣar beleteshatzTzar