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mel´zar (המּלצר, ha-melcar; Septuagint ἈβιεσδÏιÌ, AbiesdrıÌ, Theod. ἉμελσαÌδ, HamelsaÌd): Possibly a transliteration of the Babylonian Ameluucur, the officer to whom was entrusted the bringing-up of Daniel and his three companions ( the King James Version, the Revised Version (British and American) “the steward,†margin “Hebrew: Hammelzarâ€). It has been suggested that the name is not the name of a person, but denotes the office of guardian, like the Babylonian masÌ£sÌ£aru. In this case the l would come by dissimulation from the first of the two sÌ£ sounds, which on its side has come from an assimilated n, the root being nasÌ£aru, “to protect†“to guard.â€