שַׁלְמַנְאֶ֫סֶר
Shalmaneser
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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 H8022 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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 2 verses
- 2 Kings 17:3 שַׁלְמַנְאֶ֖סֶר n Proper Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.
- 2 Kings 18:9 שַׁלְמַנְאֶ֧סֶר n Proper It happened in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.
About this entry
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שלמנאסר — transliterated Shalmanʼeçer — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Shalmaneser.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in 2 Kings (100% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is 2 Kings 17:3. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8022 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Kings 2 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Shalmaneser 2×
- American Standard Version: Shalmaneser 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shalmaneser 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shalmaneser 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8022 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8022 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8022 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8022 across 2 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.
- Shalmaneser = "fire-worshipper"
- Assyrian king who probably reigned between Tiglath-pileser and Sargon…
Word origin
n.pr.m. king of Assyria (proposes -אסרד, = Assyrian Šulman-ašaridu, ‘(God) Šulman is chief,’ SchrZK ii (1885), 197 ff. Muss-ArnoltJBL xi (1892), 79);—2 K 17:3 = 18:9; Σαλ(α)μανασ(σ)αρ, 𝔙 Salmanasar. This was שׁ׳ V, b.c. 727–722, SayHast DB s. v. JohnsEncy. Bib. s. v..
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of foreign derivation
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms H8022 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| שַׁלְמַנְאֶ֖סֶר | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 17:3 | 1 |
| שַׁלְמַנְאֶ֧סֶר | Noun, Proper | 2 Kings 18:9 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Shalmaneser). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(fire-worshipper) was the Assyrian king who reigned probably between Tiglath-Pileser and Sargon, B.C. 727-722. He led the forces of Assyria into Palestine, where Hoshea, the last king of Israel, had revolted against his authority. (2 Kings 17:3) Hoshea submitted and consented to pay tribute; but he soon after concluded all alliance with the king of Egypt, and withheld his tribute in consequence. In B.C. 723 Shalmaneser invaded Palestine for the second time, and, as Hoshea refused to submit, laid siege to Samaria. The siege lasted to the third year, B.C. 721, when the Assyrian arms prevailed. (2 Kings 17:4-6; 18:9-11) It is uncertain whether Shalmaneser conducted the siege to its close, or whether he did not lose his crown to Sargon before the city was taken.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
peace; tied; chained; perfection; retribution
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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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