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Definition of Namtar

1. Noun. A demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Namtar

Literary usage of Namtar

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

1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1907)
"And here one is reminded of the well-known Babylonian pest-demon, namtar. He is often spoken of as the " violent namtar," 3 and he comes as the ..."

2. The Story of Chaldea from the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria by Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin (1886)
"As an illustration of this principle he gives an incantation against "the wicked namtar." It begins with a highly graphic description of the terrible demon, ..."

3. Chaldea from the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria: (treated as a by Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin (1886)
"As an illustration of this principle he gives an incantation against "the wicked namtar." It begins with a highly graphic description of the terrible demon, ..."

4. The Sunday at Home: A Family Magazine for Sabbath Reading by Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) (1879)
"Nin-ki-gal opened her mouth and spake ; to her messenger, namtar, commands she gave: 'Go, ... namtar obeyed ; he adorned the Temple : decked the images, ..."

5. An Encyclopaedia of Religions by Maurice Arthur Canney (1921)
"The Tolstoy of later years, to take a modern example, felt himself to be an entirely different person from the Tolstoy of an earlier period. namtar. ..."

6. A Dictionary of the Bible: Dealing with Its Language, Literature, and by Samuel Rolles Driver, James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie (1908)
"He stations the fourteen watchers of the under-world as sentinels at the gates, and orders namtar to strike off the head of Nin-ki-gal. ..."

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