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sam-gar-nē´bo (× ×‘×• סמגר, sÌ£amgar nebhoÌ„, a Babylonian name): An officer of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, who, according to the Massoretic Text of , took his seat with other nobles in the middle gate of Jerusalem after the Chaldean army had taken the city. Schrader (COT, ii, 109) holds that the name is a Hebraized form of the Assyrian Sumgirnabu (“be gracious, Neboâ€), but Giesebrecht (Comm., 211) conjectures for Samgar a corruption of Sar-mag (Sar-magh), equivalent to Rab-mag (rab-magh), which implies virtual dittography. The number of variant readings exhibited by the Septuagint seems to confirm the belief that the text is corrupt. Nebo (nabu) is there joined with the following Sarsechim to agree with Nebushazban of . If the name Samgar-nebo is correct, the first Nergal-sharezer “should perhaps be dropped; we would then read: “Samgar-nebo the Sarsechim, Nebushazban the Rab-saris (compare ) and Nergal-sharezer the Rab-mag†(Sayce). See RAB-MAG; RAB-SARIS.