נְבוּזַרְאֲדָן
Nebuzaradan
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5018 appears — 15 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Kings 3 verses
- 2 Kings 25:8 נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֧ן n Proper Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, to Jerusalem.
- 2 Kings 25:11 נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ן n Proper The residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away captive.
- 2 Kings 25:20 נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ן n Proper Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
Jeremiah 12 verses
- Jeremiah 39:9 נְבֽוּזַר אֲדָ֥ן n Proper n Proper Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the residue of the people who remained in the city, the deserters also who fell away to him, and the residue of the people who remained.
- Jeremiah 39:10 נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֥ן n Proper But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, who had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
- Jeremiah 39:11 נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֥ן n Proper Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,
- Jeremiah 39:13 נְבֽוּזַרְאֲדָ֣ן n Proper So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushazban, Rabsaris, and Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, and all the chief officers of the king of Babylon;
- Jeremiah 40:1 נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֛ן n Proper The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah, who were carried away captive to Babylon.
- Jeremiah 41:10 נְבֽוּזַרְאֲדָן֙ n Proper Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people who were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people who remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the children of Ammon.
- Jeremiah 43:6 נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֣ן n Proper the men, and the women, and the children, and the king's daughters, and every person who Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan; and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah;
- Jeremiah 52:12 נְבֽוּזַרְאֲדָן֙ n Proper Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem:
- Jeremiah 52:15 נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ן n Proper Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.
- Jeremiah 52:16 נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ן n Proper But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.
- Jeremiah 52:26 נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ן n Proper Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
- Jeremiah 52:30 נְבֽוּזַרְאֲדָן֙ n Proper in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty-five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
About this entry
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נבוזראדן — transliterated Nᵉbûwzarʼădân — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Nebuzaradan.” Its uses cluster heavily in Jeremiah (80% of all occurrences). Spanning 15 verses in 2 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at 2 Kings 25:8, it then recurs through the corpus. See 15-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5018 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 15 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Nebuzaradan 14×
- American Standard Version: Nebuzaradan 14×
- Berean Standard Bible: Nebuzaradan 15×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Nebuzaradan 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5018 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5018 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5018 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5018 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Nebuzaradan = "Nebo has given seed"
- a general of Nebuchadnezzar's army at the capture of Jerusalem
Word origin
n.pr.m. ( = Nabû-zêr-iddin, Nebo hath given seed, SchrCOT 2 K 25, 8);—general of Nebuchadrezzar, always entitled רַב־טַבָּחִים 2 K 25:8, 11, 20 = Je 52:12, 15, 26; Je 39:9, 10, 11, 13; 40:1; 41:10; 43:6; 52:16, 30.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of foreign origin
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
נְבוּזַרְאֲדָן
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Nebuzaradan, a high officer of king Nebuchadnezzar. Ex. R. s. 46. Gitt. 57ᵇ. Snh. 96ᵇ; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H5018 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֖ן | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 25:11 | 5 |
| נְבֽוּזַרְאֲדָן֙ | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 41:10 | 3 |
| נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֥ן | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 39:10 | 2 |
| אֲדָ֥ן | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 39:9 | 1 |
| נְבֽוּזַר | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 39:9 | 1 |
| נְבֽוּזַרְאֲדָ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 39:13 | 1 |
| נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֛ן | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 40:1 | 1 |
| נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֣ן | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 43:6 | 1 |
| נְבוּזַרְאֲדָ֧ן | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 25:8 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Nebuzaradan). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
"the captain of the guard," in rank next to the king, who appears prominent in directing affairs at the capture of Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:8-20; Jer. 39:11; 40:2-5). He showed kindness toward Jeremiah, as commanded by Nebuchadnezzar (40:1). Five years after this he again came to Jerusalem and carried captive seven hundred and forty-five more Jews.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(chief whom Nebo favors), the Rab-tabbachim i.e. chief of the slaughterers (Authorized Version "captain of the guard"), a high officer in the court of Nebuchadnezzar. On the capture of Jerusalem he was left by Nebuchadnezzar in charge of the city. Comp. (Jeremiah 39:11) He seems to have quitted Judea when he took down the chief people of Jerusalem to his master at Riblah. (2 Kings 25:18-20) In four years he again appeared. (Jeremiah 52:30) Nebuchadnezzar in his twenty-third year made a descent on the regions east of Jordan, including the Ammonites and Moabites, who escaped when Jerusalem was destroyed. Thence he proceeded to Egypt, and, either on the way thither or on the return, Nebuzaradan again passed through the country and carried off more captives. (Jeremiah 52:30)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
fruits or prophecies of judgment
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 15 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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