Marduk, meaning of name (The Encyclopedia Britannica, The Encyclopedia Britannica Company, Ltd, 1929, vol. 14)
Text: "And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him." Daniel 2:1; "Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. ... Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together,..." Daniel 2:31,34,35; "Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach [Marduk] is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces." Jeremiah 50:2
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[...] The name itself was introduced at this time, amar-udu, amar-utu, and means "young bull, the sun," becoming, after the regular rule of Sumerian loan-words, Marutukku, Marudukku, Má-rû-tu-[uk-ku], Maruduk, Marduku, Marduk. (See S. Langdon, Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts, vol. vi. 99, 113, and Cuneiform Texts . . in the British Museum, vol. xxv. 34, ii. 17.) The Hebrew transcription is Merodak, and the Greek, Maradouchos, Mardakos, Mardokos, Maradach.
The Encyclopedia Britannica, The Encyclopedia Britannica Company, Ltd, 1929, vol. 14, p. 872.
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