Original Word: נְסִרֹךְ
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Nicrok
Pronunciation: NIS-rok
Phonetic Spelling: (nis-roke')
KJV: Nisroch
NASB: Nisroch
Word Origin: [of foreign origin]

1. Nisrok, a Babylonian idol

Nisroch

Of foreign origin; Nisrok, a Babylonian idol -- Nisroch.

Word Origin
of foreign origin
Definition
an Assyr. god
NASB Translation
Nisroch (2).

נִסְרֹךְ proper name, of a divinity Assyrian god, worshipped by Sennacherib, 2 Kings 19:37 = Isaiah 37:38; ᵐ5 Εσδραχ, A Εσθραχ, ᵐ5^L Ασραχ(Κ); ᵐ5 Νασαραχ, א Ασαρακ, A Ασαραχ (Isaiah); Jos^{Ant. x. 1}, 5 Αρασκη; no such god in cuneiform inscriptions; see views in Meinh^{Jesaiaerzählungen (1898) on the passage}; corrupt form of Nusku (= נסוך) according to Hal^{Jas. xiii (1879), 387 = Mél. de. Crit. 177} Muss-Arn^{JBL xi.1 (1892), 86}; Hebraica. vii. 89 R. 17; Nusku is a solar diety, compare Jastr^{Rel. Bab. 220 f}.

נֵעָה, נֹעָה see נוע.

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