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אֵסַר־חַדּוֹןʼÊçar-Chaddôwn

proper name, masculine: Esarhaddon, king of Assyria B.C.

Pronunciation: ay-sar' Chad-dohn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H634

Meanings

681-668, son & successor of Sennacherib (Isaiah 37:38; 2 Kings 19:37; Ezra 4:2)

Where it appears

Appears 6 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.
  • Ezra 4:2 So they approached Zerubbabel and the other leaders and said, “Let us build with you, for we worship your God just as you do. We have sacrificed to him ever since King Esarhaddon of Assyria brought us here.”
  • 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.
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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).