Belshazzar
בֵּֽלְאשַׁצַּר, בֵּלְשַׁאצַּרStrong’s H1113beleshatstsar (be-le-shats-tsar)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Beleshatstsar is the Aramaic word usually translated “belshazzar” and “o belshazzar”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Dan.5.1
How it's translated
- belshazzar 5
- o belshazzar 1
- of belshazzar 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 7
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 5:2In contextBelshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
- Daniel 5:9In contextThen was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.
- Daniel 5:22In contextAnd thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though thou knewest all this;
- Daniel 5:29In contextThen commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
- Daniel 5:30In contextIn that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
- Daniel 7:1In contextIn the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.
Aramaic dictionary
בֵּֽלְאשַׁצַּר, בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר beleshatstsar · Belshazzar
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Dan.5.1; son of: Nebuchadnezzar (H5019) Aramaic of be.le.shats.tsar (בֵּֽלְאשַׁצַּר, בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר "Belshazzar" H1112) § Belshazzar = "Bel protect the king" king of Babylon at the time of its fall; he to whom Daniel interpreted the writing on the wall
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.