Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #2951 - טִפְסַר tiphsar (a scribe)

Original Word:	טִפְסַר
Transliteration:	tiphsar
Definition:	a scribe, marshal
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(tif-sar')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

captain

Of foreign derivation; a military governor -- captain.

Englishman's Concordance

1) scribe, official, marshal
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: of foreign derivation
Same Word by TWOT Number: 820

Brown-Driver-Briggs

טִפְסָרnoun [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 Jeremiah 51:27, Lotz^{TP 180}; dupšarru, according to Dl^{HWB 227}) — plural suffix טַפְסְרַיִךְNahum 3:17 (as if from טַפְסֵר) thy scribes, marshals, of high officials of Nineveh; absolute singular מִּקְדוּ עָלֶיהָ טִפְסָרJeremiah 51:27appoint a marshal against her, i.e. against Babylon. — On military function of those skilled in writing compare שֹׁטֵר.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 2951. טִפְסָר (tiphsar) — 2 Occurrences

Jeremiah 51:27
HEB:פִּקְד֤וּ עָלֶ֙יהָ֙ טִפְסָ֔ר הַֽעֲלוּ־ ס֖וּס
NAS: Appoint a marshal against
KJV: appoint a captain against her; cause the horses
INT: Appoint against A marshal her Bring the horses

Nahum 3:17
HEB:מִנְּזָרַ֙יִךְ֙ כָּֽאַרְבֶּ֔ה וְטַפְסְרַ֖יִךְ כְּג֣וֹב גֹּבָ֑י
NAS: are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes
KJV: [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers,
INT: your guardsmen the swarming your marshals hordes of grasshoppers

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