Dict: smith - RABSHAKEH
smith:
RABSHAKEH
- R>@ - (chief cupbearer), ( kjv@2Kings:19:1; kjv@Isaiah:36:1; kjv@Isaiah:37:1) ... one of the officers of the king of Assyria sent against Jerusalem in the reign of Hezekiah. HEZEKIAH (B.C. 713.) The English version takes Rabshakeh as the name of a person; but it is more probably the name of the office which he held at the court, that of chief cupbearer.