Definition

properly, a butcher; hence, a lifeguardsman (because he was acting as an executioner); also a cook (usually slaughtering the animal for food)

Etymology

from H2873 (טָבַח);

Word family

• טָבַח ṭâbach

How the KJV renders it

• cook
• guard

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.