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- Sargon is the Hebrew rendering (Isaiah 20:1) of Assyrian Sharru-kin, a throne name meaning “the king is legitimate.”
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SARGON sär’ gŏn (סַֽרְגֹ֖ון; Akkad. šarrukēn, “the king is legitimate”). The name is found only once in the Bible (Isa 20:1) where it refers to Sargon II of Assyria (721-705 b.c.). This Sargon was the son of Tiglath-pileser III, successor to his brother Shalmaneser V, and father of Sennacherib.
Sargon is mentioned but once by name in the Old Testament (Isaiah 20:1), when he sent his Tartan (turtannu) against Ashdod, but he is referred to in 2 Kings 17:6 as "the king of Assyria" who carried Israel into captivity.
Sargon is mentioned but once by name in the Old Testament (Isaiah 20:1), when he sent his Tartan (turtannu) against Ashdod, but he is referred to in 2 Kings 17:6 as "the king of Assyria" who carried Israel into captivity.
—This name, which was meaningless fifty years ago, is now a household word in the mouth of Assyriologers; for in deciphering the cuneiform literature it was found that many of the works, especially in the library of Sargon, were translations from an extinct language; and as these were deciphered it gradually became evident that before any ...
Sargon is mentioned but once by name in the Old Testament (Isaiah 20:1), when he sent his Tartan (turtannu) against Ashdod, but he is referred to in 2 Kings 17:6 as "the king of Assyria" who carried Israel into captivity. Shalmaneser V had laid siege to Samaria and besieged it three years.
Strong's Number H5623 matches the Hebrew סַרְגּוֹן (sargôn), which occurs 1 times in 1 verses in the WLC Hebrew. Tools. Isa 20:1. In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon H5623 the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;
Sargon ( prince of the sea ), one of the greatest of the Assyrian kings, is mentioned by name but once in Scripture-- ( Isaiah 20:1 ) He was the successor of Shalmaneser, and was Sennacheribs father and his reigned from B.C. 721 to 702, and seems to have been a usurper.
