Strong's H5576 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: סַנְחֵרִיב (Çanchêrîyb)

Pronunciation: san-khay-reeb'

Morphology: n-pr-m

Derivation: of foreign origin;

Definition: Sancherib, an Assyrian king

KJV Renderings: Sennacherib.

Senses

1. son of Sargon, father of Esarhaddon, and king of Assyria from 705-681 BC; attacked Judah during the reign of king Hezekiah and Judah was delivered when in response to the prayer of Hezekiah an angel smote 185,000 Assyrian soldiers

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.