בֵּלְשַׁאצַּרBêlshaʼtstsar
proper name, masculine: king of Babylonia (Daniel 5:1; Daniel 5:2; Daniel 5:9; Daniel 5:22; Daniel 5:29)
Pronunciation: bale-shats-tsar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1113
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Daniel 5:1 Many years later King Belshazzar gave a great feast for 1,000 of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
- Daniel 5:2 While Belshazzar was drinking the wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver cups that his predecessor, Nebuchadnezzar, had taken from the Temple in Jerusalem. He wanted to drink from them with his nobles, his wives, and his concubines.
- Daniel 5:9 So the king grew even more alarmed, and his face turned pale. His nobles, too, were shaken.
- Daniel 5:22 “You are his successor, O Belshazzar, and you knew all this, yet you have not humbled yourself.
- Daniel 5:29 Then at Belshazzar’s command, Daniel was dressed in purple robes, a gold chain was hung around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:30 That very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).