Gobryas (general)

{{Short description|Cyrus the Great's general}}

{{Other uses|Gobryas (disambiguation){{!}}Gobryas}}

According to the Cyropedia of Xenophon, Gobryas ({{langx|grc|Γοβρύας}}; {{langx|peo|𐎥𐎢𐎲𐎽𐎢𐎺}} g-u-b-ru-u-v, reads as Gaub(a)ruva?;{{Cite web |title=GAUB(A)RUVA |url=http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/gaubaruva- |access-date=2023-10-04 |website=Encyclopaedia Iranica}} Elamite: Kambarma) was a Persian general who helped Cyrus II in the conquering of Babylon in 539 BCE.

Old Testament scholar Robert Dick Wilson argued that Darius the Mede might be identified as Gobryas, drawing upon the work of Theophilus Pinches.{{cite journal |last1=Wilson |first1=Robert Dick |title=Belshazzar and Darius the Mede |journal=The Bible Student and the Teacher |date=1906 |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=88–93 |url=https://static1.squarespace.com/static/590be125ff7c502a07752a5b/t/62c6202cccd2dc4cf40616bf/1657151532392/Wilson%2C+Robert+Dick%2C+Belshazzar+and+Darius+the+Mede.pdf |access-date=4 October 2022}} George Frederick Wright championed the view of Wilson in his Scientific Confirmation of Old Testament History.{{cite book |last1=Wright |first1=George Frederick |title=Scientific Confirmations of the Old Testament History |date=1913 |publisher=Bibliotheca Sacra Company |page=51 |edition=3rd}}