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Definition of Sennacherib
1. Noun. King of Assyria who invaded Judea twice and defeated Babylon and rebuilt Nineveh after it had been destroyed by Babylonians (died in 681 BC).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sennacherib
Literary usage of Sennacherib
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"Sennacherib added 15000 bowmen and 15000 pikemen from these countries to his army.
This was in 700 BC Sennacherib calls it his 'fourth campaign. ..."
2. Catalogue of the Cuneiform Tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the by Carl Bezold, Leonard William King, Wilfred G. Lambert, Alan Ralph Millard (1896)
"Part of an inscription of Sennacherib. The text corresponds with that of Senn.
Pr., Column II, lines 30 ff. [81-7-27, 2 + 81-7-27, 4] Fragment of the upper ..."
3. A History of Babylonia and Assyria by Robert William Rogers (1900)
"people of Ekron," as Sennacherib says,1 cast Padi into iron chains and then ...
Sennacherib could not brook such an insult as this to a prince whom the ..."
4. The five great monarchies of the ancient Eastern world; or, The history by George Rawlinson (1871)
"Among the foot soldiers of Sennacherib we seem to find a corps of pioneers.4 They
wear ... (Time of Sennacherib.) After Sennacherib's time we find but few ..."
5. A History of Egypt from the End of the Neolithic Period to the Death of by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1902)
"skill which Sennacherib displayed would attempt the conquest of a country like
Egypt at the end of what must have been an arduous campaign. ..."
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