RABSHAKEH


Meaning of RABSHAKEH in English

(chief cupbearer), (2 Kings 19:1; Isaiah 36:1; Isaiah 37:1) ... one of the officers of the king of Assyria sent against Jerusalem in the reign of Hezekiah. See: Hezekiah (B.C. 713.) The English version takes Rabshakeh as the name of a person; but it is more probably the name of the office which he held at the court, that of chief cupbearer.

Smith's Bible English dictionary.      Английский библейский словарь Смита.