Lexical Definition

‎נִסְרֹךְ‎ Niçrôk (nis-roke') Nisroch ^N:N-M-T
of foreign origin

Nisroch.

• § Nisroch = "the great eagle"
• Nisrok, a Babylonian idol

1) an idol of Nineveh worshipped by Sennacherib; symbolised by the eagle-headed human figure

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎נִסְרֹךְ‎ proper name, of a divinity Assyrian god, worshipped by Sennacherib, 2Kgs 19:37 = Isa 37:38 ᵐ5 Εσδραχ, A Εσθραχ, ᵐ5^L Ασραχ(Κ); ᵐ5 Νασαραχ, ‎א‎ Ασαρακ, A Ασαραχ (Isaiah); Jos^{Ant. «JOSEPHUS:Antiquities 10:1»x. 1}, 5 Αρασκη; no such god in cuneiform inscriptions; see views in Meinh^{Jesaiaerzählungen (1898) on the passage}; corrupt form of Nusku (= ‎נסוך‎) according to Hal^{Jas. xiii (1879), 387 = Mél. de. Crit. 177} Muss-Arn^{JBL xi.1 (1892), 86}; Hebraica. vii. 89 R. 17; Nusku is a solar diety, compare Jastr^{Rel. Bab. 220 f}. ‎נֵעָה‎, ‎נֹעָה‎ see ‎נוע‎.

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