sho.vakh is the proper name of the commander of Hadadezer's army in the battle account.

The supplied verses use the term as a proper name for Hadadezer's army commander: he is present with the Arameans in 2 Samuel 10:16 and is struck down in 2 Samuel 10:18.

1. Proper name of Hadadezer's army commander · dominant

   Both occurrences are tagged Noun · Proper. In 2 Samuel 10:16 the APB renders the clause "Shobach the commander of Hadadezer's army was with them" as the Arameans come to Helam; in 2 Samuel 10:18 it renders that David "struck down Shobach the commander of their army, and he died there."

   2 Samuel 10:162 Samuel 10:18

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the name as "Shobach" in both verses, identifying him as the commander of Hadadezer's army. This identifies the verse-level presentation rather than a separate lexical rendering.