H2877 H2877
executioners, royal guards; officers who carry out the king's judgments
This Aramaic plural noun means 'guardsmen' or 'executioners,' appearing in Daniel 2:14 where Arioch, captain of the king's guard, went out to execute the wise men. The term denotes royal bodyguards who also serve as executioners of capital sentences. These officers combined protective and punitive functions, enforcing the king's will with lethal authority. The context is Nebuchadnezzar's rage-driven decree to kill all Babylon's sages.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Daniel 2:14 introduces Arioch, 'the captain of the king's guard, who had gone out to kill the wise men of Babylon.' The plural 'guardsmen' or 'executioners' identifies an elite corps tasked with protecting the king and carrying out death sentences. Spanish 'los-guardias-del-rey,' French 'plongeur' (a mistranslation suggesting 'cook' from a root confusion), and English 'executioners' variously capture the military and judicial roles of these officials. 1×
AR["الـ-شُّرَطِ"]·ben["দেহরক্ষীদের"]·DE["[טבחיא]"]·EN["the-executioners"]·FR["plongeur"]·heb["טבחים"]·HI["अंगरक्षकों"]·ID["pengawal"]·IT["[טבחיא]"]·jav["para-juru-pejah"]·KO["경호대의"]·PT["guardas-de"]·RU["палачей"]·ES["los-guardias-del-rey"]·SW["walinzi"]·TR["cellatların"]·urd["ال-جلادوں-کے"]
Related Senses
H4421 1. war, battle, armed conflict (319×)H0341 1. enemy, adversary, foe (284×)H3898a 1. Nifal: to fight, wage war (167×)H2026 1. kill, slay (active) (146×)H2451 1. wisdom, discernment (146×)H5483b 1. horse (the animal) (138×)H0006 1. to perish, be destroyed (105×)H7843 1. Hifil: destroy, annihilate (83×)H2491a 1. slain, fatally pierced (74×)H6862c 1. adversary, enemy, foe (69×)H8045 1. destroy, exterminate (69×)G0615 1. kill, put to death (60×)H6571b 1. horseman, cavalryman (52×)H8077a 1. desolation, waste (abstract state) (52×)G4678 1. of wisdom (51×)G4717 1. crucify, fasten to a cross (46×)H2763a 1. utterly destroy (Hifil active) (44×)G0622 1. perish, be destroyed (intransitive) (41×)H0006 2. to destroy, annihilate (Piel) (38×)H8074 1. be desolate, lie waste (36×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [טַבָּח] n.m. guardsman (v. BH id.; √ טבח);—pl. emph. טַבָּחַיָּא Dn 2:14.