tabbach (guard) · Rightly

Meaning

Executioner, cook, bodyguard, guardsmancook (who also killed the animal for food) · guardsmen, bodyguard

How it's translated

bodyguards 24
the bodyguards 6
to the cook 1
the cook 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Jeremiah 17
2 Kings 7
Genesis 6
1 Samuel 2

4 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Genesis 39:1And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither.
Genesis 40:3And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Genesis 40:4And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.
Genesis 41:10Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard’s house, both me and the chief baker:
Genesis 41:12And there was there with us a young man, an Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard; and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man according to his dream he did interpret.
1 Samuel 9:23And Samuel said unto the cook, Bring the portion which I gave thee, of which I said unto thee, Set it by thee.

All 32 verses, by book

Genesis 6: 37:36 39:1 40:3 40:4 41:10 41:12
1 Samuel 2: 9:23 9:24
2 Kings 7: 25:8 25:10 25:11 25:12 25:15 25:18 25:20
Jeremiah 17: 39:9 39:10 39:11 39:13 40:1 40:2 40:5 41:10 43:6 52:12 52:14 52:15 52:16 52:19 52:24 52:26 52:30

Hebrew dictionary

טַבָּח tabbach · guard

1) executioner, cook, bodyguard, guardsman 1a) cook (who also killed the animal for food) 1b) guardsmen, bodyguard Aramaic equivalent: tab.bach (טַבָּח "guardsman" H2877)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “guard” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

GUARD, verb transitive

gard. [Latin verus; wahren, to keep, to last, to hold out; bewahren, to keep or preserve; bewahren, to verify, to confirm; Eng. ware, aware; ]

To secure against injury, loss or attack; to protect; to defend; to keep in safety.
To secure against objections or the attacks of malevolence.
To accompany and protect; to accompany for protection; as, to guard a general on a journey; to guard the baggage of an army.
To adorn with lists, laces or ornaments.

All definitions and other forms of “guard”

To gird; to fasten by binding.

GUARD, verb intransitive

To watch by way of caution or defense; to be cautions; to be in a state of defense or safety. guard against mistakes, or against temptations.

GUARD, noun

[Eng. ward.]

Defense; preservation or security against injury, loss or attack.
That which secures against attack or injury; that which defends.
A man or body of men occupied in preserving a person or place from attack or injury; he or they whose business is to defend, or to prevent attack or surprise.
A state of caution or vigilance; or the act of observing what passes in order to prevent surprise or attack; care; attention; watch; heed.
That which secures against objections or censure; caution of expression.
Part of the hilt of a sword, which protects the hand.
In fencing, a posture of defense.
An ornamental lace, hem or boarder.

GUARD'-BOAT, noun

A boat appointed to row the rounds among ships of war in a harbor, to observe that their officers keep a good look-out.

GUARD'-CHAMBER, noun

A guard-room.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.