STRONGS NUMBER H5268


Word Summary
Nisrok: an Assyr. god
Original Word: נְסִרֹךְ
Transliteration: Nisrok
Phonetic Spelling: (nis-roke')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: an Assyr. god
Meaning: an Assyrian god
Strong's Concordance
Nisroch

Of foreign origin; Nisrok, a Babylonian idol -- Nisroch.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5268. Nisrok

נִסְרֹךְproper name, of a divinity Assyrian god, worshipped by Sennacherib, 2 Kings 19:37 = Isaiah 37:38; ᵐ5Εσδραχ, A Εσθραχ, ᵐ5L Ασραχ(Κ); ᵐ5Νασαραχ, אΑσαρακ, A Ασαραχ (Isaiah); JosAnt. x. 1, 5 Αρασκη; no such god in cuneiform inscriptions; see views in MeinhJesaiaerzählungen (1898) on the passage; corrupt form of Nusku (= נסוך‎) according to HalJas. xiii (1879), 387 = Mél. de. Crit. 177 Muss-ArnJBL xi.1 (1892), 86; Hebraica. vii. 89 R. 17; Nusku is a solar diety, compare JastrRel. Bab. 220 f.

נֹעָה נֵעָה,‎ see נוע‎.