King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2951
Transliteration: tiphsar
Phonetic Spelling: (tif-sar')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a scribe, marshal
Meaning: a military governor
Word Summary
tiphsar: a scribe, marshal
Original Word: טִפְסַרTransliteration: tiphsar
Phonetic Spelling: (tif-sar')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a scribe, marshal
Meaning: a military governor
Strong's Concordance
captain Of foreign derivation; a military governor -- captain.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2951. tiphsar
טִפְסָר noun [masculine] scribe, marshal (if meaning correct, then Assyrian loan-word, from dupsarru, tablet-writer, scribe, see LenLangue Primit. de la Chaldeve, 365 SchrCOT on Jeremiah 51:27, LotzTP 180; dupšarru, according to DlHWB 227) — plural suffix טַפְסְרַיִךְ Nahum 3:17 (as if from טַפְסֵר) thy scribes, marshals, of high officials of Nineveh; absolute singular טִפְסָר עָלֶיהָ מִּקְדוּ Jeremiah 51:27 appoint a marshal against her, i.e. against Babylon. — On military function of those skilled in writing compare שֹׁטֵר.