Strong's Definition
from 2873; properly, a butcher; hence, a lifeguardsman (because he was acting as an executioner); also a cook (usually slaughtering the animal for food)
KJV Usage: cook, guard
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
טַבָּח (tab.bach) — guard. 1) executioner, cook, bodyguard, guardsman 1a) cook (who also killed the animal for food) 1b) guardsmen, bodyguard Aramaic equivalent: tab.bach (טַבָּח "guardsman" H2877)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · טבח
noun m
Soldiers | noun m pl
Collocation: טַבָּחִים
guard, bodyguard (both in the collective sense) = elite group of soldiers ► responsible for protecting high-ranking officials; ≈ possibly carried the pejorative connotation that "butchers" can have in referring to ruthless soldiers
GEN 37:36 · GEN 39:1 · GEN 40:3 · GEN 40:4 · GEN 41:10 · GEN 41:12 · 2KI 25:8 · 2KI 25:10 · 2KI 25:11 · 2KI 25:12 · 2KI 25:15 · 2KI 25:18 · 2KI 25:20 · JER 39:9 · JER 39:10 · JER 39:11 · JER 39:13 · JER 40:1 · JER 40:2 · JER 40:5 · JER 41:10 · JER 43:6 · JER 52:12 · JER 52:14 · JER 52:15 · JER 52:16 · JER 52:19 · JER 52:24 · JER 52:26 · JER 52:30
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
טַבָּח n.m. 1. cook, 2. guardsman base