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סַמְגַּר נְבוֹ

Samgar-nebo

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Samgar-nebo’ fuller range ↓

H5562 Strong's Hebrew
Çamgar Nᵉbôw Transliteration
/sam-gar' neb-o'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 2 appearances

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About this entry

At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.

“Samgar-nebo” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name סמגר נבו (Çamgar Nᵉbôw). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Jeremiah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Its lone occurrence is Jeremiah 39:3. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Samgar-nebo
Modern gloss
Samgar-nebo
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H5562 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 →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Jeremiah 39:3
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Jeremiah 39:3.
#4,807
by frequency
Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 1 · 100%

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 1 distinct verse.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 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: Samgarnebo 1×
  • American Standard Version: Nergal-sharezer samgar-nebo 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Samgar 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H5562 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Samgarnebo” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H5562 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Nergal-sharezer samgar-nebo” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H5562 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Samgar” 1×

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.

  1. Samgar-nebo = "sword of Nebo"
  2. one of the princes or generals of king Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon

Word origin

סַמְגַּר נְבוֹ n.pr.m. an officer of Nebuchad. acc. to MT Je 39:3

— 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

Part of speech: Proper Name Masculine


Forms in the corpus

The 2 distinct written forms H5562 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
נְב֞וּ Noun, Proper Jeremiah 39:3 1
סַֽמְגַּר Noun, Proper Jeremiah 39:3 1

Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Samgar-nebo). 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

Be gracious, O Nebo! or a cup-bearer of Nebo, probably the title of Nergal-sharezer, one of the princes of Babylon (Jer. 39:3).

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(sword of Nebo), one of the princes or generals of the king of Babylon. (Jeremiah 39:3)

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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