Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #4453 - מֶלְצָר meltsar (perhaps guardian)

Original Word:	מֶלְצָר
Transliteration:	meltsar
Definition:	perhaps guardian
Part of Speech:	Noun Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(mel-tsawr')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Melzar

Of Persian derivation; the butler or other officer in the Babylonian court -- Melzar.

Englishman's Concordance

1) guardian, an officer of the court
1a) meaning dubious
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: of Persian derivation
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1206

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מֶלְצָרnoun masculinea Babylonian title; dubious; perhaps guardian ? (Schr^{COT Daniel 1:11} Dl^{Baer Dn xi} conjecture loan-word from Assyrian maƒ(ƒ)aru, keeper, guardian, compare Dl^{HWB 423}; hardly connected with (modern) Persian mulsaru 'Kellermeister' (compare Meinh.), see against this Bev); — only with article ׳הַמּDaniel 1:11,16.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 4453. הַמֶּלְצַר (meltsar) — 2 Occurrences

Daniel 1:11
HEB:דָּנִיֵּ֖אל אֶל־ הַמֶּלְצַ֑ר אֲשֶׁ֤ר מִנָּה֙
NAS: said to the overseer whom
KJV: Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince
INT: Daniel to the overseer whom had appointed

Daniel 1:16
HEB: וַיְהִ֣י הַמֶּלְצַ֗ר נֹשֵׂא֙ אֶת־
NAS:So the overseer continued to withhold
KJV:Thus Melzar took away
INT: continued the overseer to withhold their choice

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