Nᵉbûwkadneʼtstsar — H5019

Definition

masculine proper noun

Nebukadnetstsar (or -retstsar, or -retstsor), king of Babylon

1. Nebuchadnezzar or Nebuchadrezzar = "may Nebo protect the crown"
2. the great king of Babylon who captured Jerusalem and carried Judah captive

Usually translated as

Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadrezzar

Origin

or Nᵉbukadneʼtstsar; (2 Kings 24:1,10), or Nᵉbûwkadnetstsar; (Esther 2:6; Daniel 1:18), or Nᵉbûwkadreʼtstsar; or Nᵉbûwkadreʼtstsôwr; (Ezra 2:1; Jeremiah 49:28), or foreign derivation

Occurrences

Nᵉbûwkadneʼtstsar occurs 46 times in 45 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Kings (6), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (4), Ezra (2), Nehemiah (1), Esther (1), Jeremiah (25), Ezekiel (2), Daniel (3)

• 2 Kings 24:1 — In his days Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֻכַדְנֶאצַּ֖ר) king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him.
• 2 Kings 24:10 — At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֻכַדְנֶאצַּ֥ר) king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.
• 2 Kings 24:11 — And Nebuchadnezzar (נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֥ר) king of Babylon came against the city, and his servants did besiege it.
• 2 Kings 25:1 — And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֻכַדְנֶאצַּ֨ר) king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.
• 2 Kings 25:8 — And in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֻכַדְנֶאצַּ֣ר) king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem:
• 2 Kings 25:22 — And as for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֽוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֖ר) king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.
• 1 Chronicles 6:15 — And Jehozadak went into captivity, when the LORD carried away Judah and Jerusalem by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֻכַדְנֶאצַּֽר).
• 2 Chronicles 36:6 — Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar (נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֖ר) king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
• 2 Chronicles 36:7 — Nebuchadnezzar (נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֖ר) also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
• 2 Chronicles 36:10 — And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֽוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֔ר) sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
• 2 Chronicles 36:13 — And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֽוּכַדְנֶאצַּר֙), who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
• Ezra 1:7 — Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֽוּכַדְנֶצַּר֙) had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;
• Ezra 2:1 — Now these are the children of the province that went up out of the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar (נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֥ר) the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;
• Nehemiah 7:6 — These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar (נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּ֖ר) the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;
• Esther 2:6 — Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar (נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֖ר) the king of Babylon had carried away.
• Jeremiah 21:7 — And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of (נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֣ר) Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those that seek their life: and he shall smite them with the edge of the sword; he shall not spare them, neither have pity, nor have mercy.
• Jeremiah 22:25 — And I will give thee into the hand of them that seek thy life, and into the hand of them whose face thou fearest, even into the hand of (נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֥ר) Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of the Chaldeans.
• Jeremiah 25:1 — The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of (לִנְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֖ר) Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
• Jeremiah 25:9 — Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and (נְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֣ר) Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
• Jeremiah 27:6 — And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar (נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֥ר) the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
• Jeremiah 27:8 — And it shall come to pass, that the nation and kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar (נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֣ר) the king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish, saith the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
• Jeremiah 27:20 — Which Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֽוּכַדְנֶאצַּר֙) king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem;
• Jeremiah 28:3 — Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels of the LORD’s house, that Nebuchadnezzar (נְבוּכַדנֶאצַּ֤ר) king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:
• Jeremiah 28:11 — And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֻֽכַדְנֶאצַּ֣ר) king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
• Jeremiah 28:14 — For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֻכַדְנֶאצַּ֥ר) king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also.
• Jeremiah 29:1 — Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֽוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֛ר) had carried away captive from Jerusalem to Babylon;
• Jeremiah 29:3 — By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar (נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֛ר) king of Babylon) saying,
• Jeremiah 29:21 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of (נְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֣ר) Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;
• Jeremiah 32:1 — The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of (לִנְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּֽר) Nebuchadrezzar.
• Jeremiah 32:28 — Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of (נְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֥ר) Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:
• Jeremiah 34:1 — The word which came unto Jeremiah from the LORD, when Nebuchadnezzar (וּנְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֣ר) king of Babylon, and all his army, and all the kingdoms of the earth of his dominion, and all the people, fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities thereof, saying,
• Jeremiah 35:11 — But it came to pass, when (נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֥ר) Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
• Jeremiah 39:5 — But the Chaldeans’ army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar (נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֧ר) king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
• Jeremiah 39:11 — Now (נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֥ר) Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard, saying,
• Jeremiah 44:30 — Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of (נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֧ר) Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.
• Jeremiah 46:13 — The word that the LORD spake to Jeremiah the prophet, how (נְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּר֙) Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon should come and smite the land of Egypt.
• Jeremiah 46:26 — And I will deliver them into the hand of those that seek their lives, and into the hand of (נְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֥ר) Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of his servants: and afterward it shall be inhabited, as in the days of old, saith the LORD.
• Jeremiah 52:12 — Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of (נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֣ר) Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem,
• Jeremiah 52:29 — In the eighteenth year of (לִנְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֑ר) Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
• Jeremiah 52:30 — In the three and twentieth year of (לִנְבֽוּכַדְרֶאצַּר֒) Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzar-adan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
• Ezekiel 29:19 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto (לִנְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֥ר) Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.
• Ezekiel 30:10 — Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease by the hand of (נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּ֥ר) Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.
• Daniel 1:1 — In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar (נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּ֧ר) king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
• Daniel 1:18 — Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in, then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֻכַדְנֶצַּֽר).
• Daniel 2:1 — And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֻֽכַדְנֶצַּ֔ר), Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.
• Daniel 2:1 — And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar (נְבֻֽכַדְנֶצַּ֖ר) dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.