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  • proper noun biblical One of Sennacherib's messengers to Hezekiah, quoted in 2 Kings 18:27–37 and Isaiah 36:12–20.

Etymologies

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From Hebrew, presumably from Assyrian.

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Examples

  • But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words?

    THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan!! Hal Duncan 2008

  • How many Gentiles rushed to the defense of Israel when the Assyrians threatened, when the Rabshakeh besieged Jerusalem?

    AKMA’s Random Thoughts 2006

  • Rabshakeh challenged Hezekiah and the Hebrew people, raising his voice to a booming pitch so he could be heard even by the crowd watching the scene from the city walls.

    Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007

  • He could start with Isaiah 36: 12, my “favorite” verse, presented here from the King James Version: But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

    The outcry over indecency is a big lie « BuzzMachine 2005

  • Rabshakeh challenged Hezekiah and the Hebrew people, raising his voice to a booming pitch so he could be heard even by the crowd watching the scene from the city walls.

    Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible Linda Washington 2007

  • I always thought the word “piss” was dirty, but there it is in the King James Version of the Bible: Isaiah 36: 12: “But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?”

    Censoring the news « BuzzMachine 2005

  • But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

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