רַב־מָג

II. רַב₄₉ noun masculine chief (Assyrian-Babylonian influence, compare rab Dl^{HWB 609 b}; Biblical Aramic רַב); — construct ׳ר Jer 39,9+; plural construct רַבֵּי Jer 39,13; Jer 41,1 (but see below); — especially רַבֿ טַבָּחִים chief of guardsmen (see טַבָּח), only as title of Babylonian officer Jer 30,9; Jer 30,10 + 15 t. Jeremiah, 7 t || 2 Kong 25,1–200 (compare ׳שַׁר הַט in Gen [J E]); also רַב הַחֹבֵל Jon 1,6 chief of the sailors, i.e. captain; in general כָּלרַֿב בֵּיתוֺ Est 1,8, רַבמָֿרִיסָיו Dan 1,3 (see סָרִיס ), and so רַבֵּי מֶלֶךְ בָּבֶל Jer 39,13, רַבֵּי הַמֶּלֶךְ Jer 41,1 (late gloss; omitted by ᵐ5 and || 2 Kong 25,25, so Hi Gf Gie). The following titles of Assyrian -Babylonian officers are probably loan-words in Hebrew: רַבמָֿ֑ג Jer 39,3; Jer 39,13 usually chief soothsayer (see מָ֑ג), but = rab-mugi [? chief of princes] Pinches^{Hast. DB. BAB-MAG}; רַבסָֿרִיס (compare Old Aramaic [Nineveh] רב סרס Lzb³⁸⁶), 2 Kong 18,17 (Assyrian; not in || Es 36,2), Jer 39,8; Jer 39,13 (Babylonian ), usually chief eunuch, but = rabû-ša-rêši, chief of the heads (the principal men) Wkl^{Unters. x.altor.Geschichte.1889, Excurs. v, p. 138} (actually found as rubû-ša-ri-ešu Pinches^{Acad June 25,1892, 618}), Pinches^{Hast.DB.RAB-SARIS}; רַבשָֿׁקֵה (van d. H. רַבְשָׁקֵה) chief of the officers (?) (so probably Assyrian rab-ŠA†; ša‡kû = high one; COT^{2 Kong 18,17} KB^ii.23 Dl^{HWB 685 a} Tiele^{Bab.-As. Geschichte.497.513} Pinches^{Hast.DB.iv 191}), 2 Kong 18,17; 2 Kong 18,19; 2 Kong 18,26; 2 Kong 18,27; 2 Kong 18,37; 2 Kong 19,4; 2 Kong 19,8 = Es 36,2; Es 36,4; Es 36,11; Es 36,13 (twice in verse); Es 36,22; Es 37,4; Es 37,8