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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - סַנְחֵרִיב
סַנְחֵרִיב
H5576
Transliteration: Çanchêrîyb
Pronunciation: san-khay-reeb'
Definition: Sennacherib
Original: סנחריב Transliteration: sanchêrı̂yb Phonetic: san-khay-reeb'
BDB Definition:
Sennacherib = "Sin multiplied brothers" (Sin = the moon)- 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