Midvash

נִסְרֹךְNiçrôk

proper name [of a divinity]: Assyrian god, worshipped by Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38)

Pronunciation: nis-roke' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5268

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Kings 19:37 One day while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with their swords. They then escaped to the land of Ararat, and another son, Esarhaddon, became the next king of Assyria.
  • Isaiah 37:38 One day while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with their swords. They then escaped to the land of Ararat, and another son, Esarhaddon, became the next king of Assyria.

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).