Bible word study

Tabbach (Strong’s H2876): Meaning in the Bible

Tabbach (טַבָּח) is the Hebrew word numbered H2876 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, a butcher; hence, a lifeguardsman (because he was acting as an executioner); also a cook (usually slaughtering the animal for food). In the King James Bible it is translated cook, guard..

• Original wordטַבָּח
• Transliterationṭabbâch
• Pronunciationtab-bawkh'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH2876
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H2873;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Tabbach appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Tabbach (H2876) stands behind 32 English renderings in 32 verses across 4 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Jeremiah (17), 2 Kings (7), Genesis (6).

How the King James Bible renders Tabbach, by count

• guard29 of 32 (91 percent)
• cook2 of 32 (6 percent)
• guards1 of 32 (3 percent)

Three places to read Tabbach

• Genesis 37:36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, and captain of the guard.
• 2 Kings 25:11 Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carry away.
• Jeremiah 40:5 Now while he was not yet gone back, he said, Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Tabbach in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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