Strong's H5019 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: נְבוּכַדְנֶאצַּר (Nᵉbûwkadneʼtstsar)

Pronunciation: neb-oo-kad-nets-tsar'

Morphology: n-pr-m

Name Meaning: Nebuchadnezzar or Nebuchadrezzar = "may Nebo protect the crown"

Derivation: or נְבֻּכַדְנֶאצַּר (Nᵉbukadneʼtstsar); (2 Kings 24:1,10), or נְבוּכַדְנֶצַּר (Nᵉbûwkadnetstsar); (Esther 2:6; Daniel 1:18), or נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר (Nᵉbûwkadreʼtstsar); or נְבוּכַדְרֶאצּוֹר (Nᵉbûwkadreʼtstsôwr); (Ezra 2:1; Jeremiah 49:28), or foreign derivation;

Definition: Nebukadnetstsar (or -retstsar, or -retstsor), king of Babylon

KJV Renderings: Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadrezzar.

Senses

1. the great king of Babylon who captured Jerusalem and carried Judah captive

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.