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Ashpenaz (Babylonian official, Nebuchadnezzar's chief of eunuchs)
This high-ranking Babylonian courtier served as chief of the eunuchs responsible for selecting and training noble captives for royal service. He oversaw Daniel and his companions' three-year education program, showing unexpected sympathy when Daniel requested dietary accommodation. The name's etymology remains uncertain, likely derived from Akkadian administrative terminology.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Personal name of Nebuchadnezzar's chief eunuch in Daniel 1:3, charged with recruiting talented young Judean nobility for Babylonian palace service. His role involved both selection and supervision of the rigorous training regimen designed to assimilate foreign elites into Babylonian court culture. Cross-linguistic renderings preserve the proper name through transliteration. 1×
AR["لِ-أَشْفَنَزَ"]·ben["-অস্পনসকে"]·DE["[לאשפנז]"]·EN["to-Ashpenaz"]·FR["magicien"]·heb["ל-אשפנז"]·HI["को-अश्पनज"]·ID["kepada-Aspenas"]·IT["[לאשפנז]"]·jav["dhateng-Aspenas"]·KO["아스브나스에게"]·PT["a-Ashpenaz"]·RU["Ашпеназу"]·ES["a-Ashpenaz"]·SW["kwa-Ashpenazi"]·TR["Aşpenaz'a"]·urd["اشپنز-کو"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† אַשְׁפְּנַז n.pr.m. the רַב־סָרִיסִים, chief of eunuchs, of Nebuchadrezzar Dn 1:3 (meaning unknown).