Bible Names

Tartan: meaning of the name

Tartan means “a general (official title).”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Tartan in Hebrew and Greek

תַּרְתָּן H8661

Tartân (tar-tawn') — Tartan, an Assyrian

of foreign derivation;

Who named Tartan in the Bible

Tartan in Scripture

“Tartan” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • 2 Kings 18:17

    And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab–shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

  • Isaiah 20:1

    In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;