# H2876 טַבָּח

טַבָּח (ṭabbâch), Strong’s H2876: properly, a butcher; hence, a lifeguardsman (because he was acting as an executioner); also a cook (usually slaughtering the animal for food) KJV: cook, guard…

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

KJV: cook, guard.

Derived from [טָבַח ṭâbach](https://besorah.bible/word/H2873) (to slaughter)

Occurs 31 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- טַבָּח n.m. 1. cook, 2. guardsman

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 37:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/37?v=36) — The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.
- [Genesis 39:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/39?v=1) — Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him…
- [Genesis 40:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=3) — He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
- [Genesis 40:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/40?v=4) — The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.
- [Genesis 41:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=10) — Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief…
- [Genesis 41:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/41?v=12) — There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted…
- [1 Samuel 9:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/9?v=23) — Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion which I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Set it aside.’”
- [1 Samuel 9:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/9?v=24) — The cook took up the thigh, and that which was on it, and set it before Saul. Samuel said, “Behold, that which has been…
- [2 Kings 25:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/25?v=8) — Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar king of…
- [2 Kings 25:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-kings/25?v=10) — All the army of the Kasdim, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.