Belshazzar
a prince of Babylon, son of Nabonidus and co-regent with him, referred to in the Bible as a king of Babylon and son of Nebuchadnezzar. Dan. 5.
Historical Examples
The Harvester Gene Stratton Porter
The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty
Istar of Babylon Margaret Horton Potter
Broken Bread Thomas Champness
Adventures in the Moon, and Other Worlds John Russell Russell
The Expositor’s Bible: The Book of Daniel F. W. Farrar
The Harvester Gene Stratton Porter
The Bible John E. Remsburg
The Children’s Bible Henry A. Sherman
The Bible John E. Remsburg
noun
6th century bc, the son of Nabonidus, coregent of Babylon with his father for eight years: referred to as king and son of Nebuchadnezzar in the Old Testament (Daniel 5:1, 17; 8:1); described as having received a divine message of doom written on a wall at a banquet (Belshazzar’s Feast)
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