King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4453
Transliteration: meltsar
Phonetic Spelling: (mel-tsawr')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: perhaps guardian
Meaning: the butler, other officer in the Babylonian court
Word Summary
meltsar: perhaps guardian
Original Word: מֶלְצָרTransliteration: meltsar
Phonetic Spelling: (mel-tsawr')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: perhaps guardian
Meaning: the butler, other officer in the Babylonian court
Strong's Concordance
Melzar Of Persian derivation; the butler or other officer in the Babylonian court -- Melzar.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4453. meltsar
מֶלְצָר noun masculine a Babylonian title; dubious; perhaps guardian ? (SchrCOT Daniel 1:11 DlBaer Dn xi conjecture loan-word from Assyrian maƒ(ƒ)aru, keeper, guardian, compare DlHWB 423; hardly connected with (modern) Persian mulsaru 'Kellermeister' (compare Meinh.), see against this Bev); — only with article ׳הַמּ 1:11, 16.