Midvash

שַׁלְמַנְאֶסֶרShalmanʼeçer

proper name, masculine: king of Assyria (2 Kings 17:3; 2 Kings 18:9)

Pronunciation: shal-man-eh'-ser · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8022

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • 2 Kings 17:3 King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked King Hoshea, so Hoshea was forced to pay heavy tribute to Assyria.
  • 2 Kings 18:9 During the fourth year of Hezekiah’s reign, which was the seventh year of King Hoshea’s reign in Israel, King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked the city of Samaria and began a siege against it.

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).