Hebrew word · H1112

בֵּֽלְאשַׁצַּר, בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר

beleshatzar

Belshazzar

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Dan.5.1;

son of: Nebuchadnezzar (H5019)

Also named: be.le.shats.tsar (בֵּֽלְאשַׁצַּר, בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר "Belshazzar" H1113)

§ Belshazzar = "Bel protect the king"

king of Babylon at the time of its fall; he to whom Daniel interpreted the writing on the wall

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

Daniel · 1

  1. Daniel 8:1 בֵּלְאשַׁצַּ֣ר Belshazzar

    In the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, a vision appeared to me, Daniel, subsequent to the one that had appeared to me earlier.

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