Bible Names

Sennacherib: meaning of the name

Sennacherib means “bramble of destruction.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Sennacherib in Hebrew and Greek

סַנְחֵרִיב H5576

Çanchêrîyb (san-khay-reeb') — Sancherib, an Assyrian king

of foreign origin;

Who named Sennacherib in the Bible

Sennacherib in Scripture

“Sennacherib” appears in 13 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • 2 Kings 18:13

    Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.

  • 2 Kings 19:16

    Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.

  • 2 Kings 19:20

    Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.

  • 2 Kings 19:36

    So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

  • 2 Chronicles 32:1

    After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.

  • 2 Chronicles 32:2

    And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,

  • 2 Chronicles 32:9

    After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,

  • 2 Chronicles 32:10

    Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?