Lexical Summary Nisrok: an Assyr. god Original Word: נְסִרֹךְTransliteration: Nisrok Phonetic Spelling: (nis-roke') Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Short Definition: an Assyr. god Meaning: an Assyrian god Strong's Concordance Nisroch Of foreign origin; Nisrok, a Babylonian idol -- Nisroch. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5268. Nisrok נִסְרֹךְ proper name, of a divinity Assyrian god, worshipped by Sennacherib, 2 Kings 19:37 = Isaiah 37:38; ᵐ5 Εσδραχ, A Εσθραχ, ᵐ5L Ασραχ(Κ); ᵐ5 Νασαραχ, א Ασαρακ, A Ασαραχ (Isaiah); JosAnt. x. 1, 5 Αρασκη; no such god in cuneiform inscriptions; see views in MeinhJesaiaerzählungen (1898) on the passage; corrupt form of Nusku (= נסוך) according to HalJas. xiii (1879), 387 = Mél. de. Crit. 177 Muss-ArnJBL xi.1 (1892), 86; Hebraica. vii. 89 R. 17; Nusku is a solar diety, compare JastrRel. Bab. 220 f. נֹעָה נֵעָה, see נוע. |
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