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Definition of Nebuchadrezzar

1. Noun. (Old Testament) king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC).

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nebuchadrezzar

Literary usage of Nebuchadrezzar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"7 Nebuchadrezzar, neb"yu-cad-nez'zar: The Biblical form of the name of two Babylonian kings ... But he was defeated in turn by Nebuchadrezzar at Carchemish, ..."

2. A History of Babylonia and Assyria by Robert William Rogers (1915)
"CHAPTER II THE REIGN OF Nebuchadrezzar WHEN Nebuchadrezzar stood at the borden ... But for that death Nebuchadrezzar would almost certainly have added Egypt ..."

3. Assyrian and Babylonian Literature: Selected Translations by Robert Francis Harper (1901)
"INSCRIPTION OF Nebuchadrezzar I, KING OF BABYLON (ABOUT 1140 BC) AT the time that ... The majestic king advances, the gods urging him on, Nebuchadrezzar ..."

4. A History of the Babylonians and Assyrians by George Stephen Goodspeed (1902)
"II Nebuchadrezzar AND HIS SUCCESSORS 277. ... and Nebuchadrezzar, the first-born, the chief son, beloved of my heart, I caused to carry mortar mixed with ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1902)
"It was on this expedition that Nebuchadrezzar was brought into contact with ... How far Nebuchadrezzar had his hands tied by the troubles in Media is not ..."

6. The Modern Reader's Bible: The Books of the Bible with Three Books of the by Richard Green Moulton (1907)
"... year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem eight hun- ... in the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain ..."

7. The Messages of the Earlier Prophets, Arranged in the Order of Time by Frank Knight Sanders, Charles Foster Kent (1899)
"The Divine Judgment upon the Nations Executed by Nebuchadrezzar (25 ; cf. 47-49) Occasion of In the year 604 BC, soon after the Chaldeans con- (2s: 1, ..."

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