Lexical Definition

‎טִפְסַר‎ ṭiphçar (tif-sar') official ^H:N-M
of foreign derivation

captain.

• a military governor

1) scribe, official, marshal

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎טִפְסָר‎ noun [masculine] scribe, marshal (if meaning correct, then Assyrian loan-word, from dupsarru, tablet-writer, scribe, see Len^{Langue Primit. de la Chaldeve, 365} Schr^COT on Jer 51:27, Lotz^{TP 180}; dupšarru, according to Dl^{HWB 227}) — plural suffix ‎טַפְסְרַיִךְ‎ Nah 3:17 (as if from ‎טַפְסֵר‎) thy scribes, marshals, of high officials of Nineveh; absolute singular ‎פִּקְדוּ עָלֶיהָ טִפְסָר‎ Jer 51:27 appoint a marshal against her, i.e. against Babylon. — On military function of those skilled in writing compare ‎שֹׁטֵר‎.

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