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Definition of Nebuchadnezzar
1. Noun. (Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC).
Category relationships: Old Testament
Generic synonyms: King, Male Monarch, Rex
2. Noun. A very large wine bottle holding the equivalent of 20 normal bottles of wine; used especially for display.
Definition of Nebuchadnezzar
1. Proper noun. A ruler of Babylon in the Chaldean Dynasty who reigned c. 605 (B.C.E.) – 562 (B.C.E.). According to the Bible, he conquered Judah and Jerusalem, and sent the Israelites into exile. ¹
2. Noun. A very large wine bottle (named after the King) with the capacity of about 15 liters, equivalent to 20 standard bottles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nebuchadnezzar
Literary usage of Nebuchadnezzar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by Sir William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"nebuchadnezzar completely rebuilt his temple at Borsippa, and called after h'im
his famous seaport upon the Persian Gulf, which became known to the Greeks ..."
2. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"Whereon nebuchadnezzar, not being then at leisure, ... nebuchadnezzar, having
hereon made himself master of Jerusalem, took thence all the treasures of the ..."
3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"nebuchadnezzar encountered the Egyptians at Carchemish (Cir- cesium) on the ...
In the midst of his career of conquest nebuchadnezzar was recalled to ..."
4. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"nebuchadnezzar commenced the final siege of Jerusalem in the ninth year of
Zedekiah, — his own seventeenth year (uc 588), and took it two years Inter (uc ..."
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