Tiglath Pilʼeçer — H8407

Definition

masculine proper noun

Tiglath-Pileser or Tilgath-pilneser, an Assyryrian king

1. Tiglath-pileser or Tilgath-pilneser = "thou will uncover the wonderful bond"
2. an Assyrian king who attacked Samaria or northern kingdom of Israel in the reign of Pekah

Usually translated as

Tiglath-pileser, Tilgath-pilneser

Origin

or Tiglath Pᵉleçer; or Tilgath Pilnᵉʼeçer or Tilgath Pilneçer; of foreign derivation

Occurrences

Tiglath Pilʼeçer occurs 5 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 2 Kings (3), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (1)

• 2 Kings 15:29 — In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser (תִּגְלַ֣ת) king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.
• 2 Kings 16:7 — So Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-pileser (תִּ֠גְלַת) king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me.
• 2 Kings 16:10 — And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser (תִּגְלַ֨ת) king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
• 1 Chronicles 5:26 — And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of (תִּלְּגַ֤ת) Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.
• 2 Chronicles 28:20 — And (תִּלְּגַ֥ת) Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria came unto him, and distressed him, but strengthened him not.