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מֶלְצָר

mel.tsar

`steward`

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Strong’s H4453Noun, masculine2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

guardian2

In the text

Daniel 1:11הַמֶּלְצַר
Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מֶלְצָר n.m. a Bab. title; dubious; perhaps guardian ?;—only c. art.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.