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That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her. |
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ha·hū
That same
| Grammar | Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 1931 |
| BSB/Thayers | pron 3p s
1) he, she, it
1a) himself (with emphasis)
1b) resuming subj with emphasis
1c) (with minimum emphasis following predicate)
1d) (anticipating subj)
1e) (emphasising predicate)
1f) that, it (neuter) demons pron
2) that (with article) |
bay·yō·wm
day
| Grammar | Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3117 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) day, time, year
1a) day (as opposed to night)
1b) day (24 hour period)
1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
1b2) as a division of time
1b2a) a working day, a day's journey
1c) days, lifetime (pl.)
1d) time, period (general)
1e) year
1f) temporal references
1f1) today
1f2) yesterday
1f3) tomorrow |
ham·me·leḵ
King
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
’ă·ḥaš·wê·rō·wōš
Xerxes
| Grammar | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 325 |
| BSB/Thayers | Ahasuerus = |I will be silent and poor|
1) title of the king of Persia, probably Xerxes |
nā·ṯan
awarded
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 5414 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to give, put, set
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend, commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter, stretch out, extend
1a2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign, designate
1a3) to make, constitute
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be given, be bestowed, be provided, be entrusted to, be granted to, be permitted, be issued, be published, be uttered, be assigned
1b2) to be set, be put, be made, be inflicted
1c) (Hophal)
1c1) to be given, be bestowed, be given up, be delivered up
1c2) to be put upon |
ham·mal·kāh
Queen
| Grammar | Article | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 4436 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) queen |
’eṯ-
-
| Grammar | Direct object marker |
| Strongs | 853 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative |
lə·’es·têr
Esther
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 635 |
| BSB/Thayers | Esther = |star|
1) the queen of Persia, heroine of the book of Esther-daughter of Abihail, cousin and adopted daughter of Mordecai, of the tribe of Benjamin, made queen by king Ahasuerus to replace divorced queen, Vashti. |
bêṯ
the estate
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 1004 |
| BSB/Thayers | nm
1) house
1a) house, dwelling habitation
1b) shelter or abode of animals
1c) human bodies (fig.)
1d) of Sheol
1e) of abode of light and darkness
1f) of land of Ephraim
2) place
3) receptacle
4) home, house as containing a family
5) household, family
5a) those belonging to the same household
5b) family of descendants, descendants as organized body
6) household affairs
7) inwards (metaph.)
8) (TWOT) temple
adv
9) on the inside
prep
10) within |
hā·mān
of Haman ,
| Grammar | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2001 |
| BSB/Thayers | Haman = |magnificent|
1) chief minister of Ahasuerus, enemy of Mordecai and the Jews, who plotted to kill the Jews but, being foiled by Esther, was hanged, with his family, on the gallows he had made for Mordecai |
ṣō·rêr
the enemy
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 6887 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to bind, be narrow, be in distress, make narrow, cause distress, besiege, be straitened, be bound
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to bind, tie up, shut up
1a2) to be scant, be cramped, be in straits
1b) (Pual) to be bound, be tied up
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to make narrow for, cause distress to, press hard upon
1c2) to suffer distress
2) to show hostility toward, vex
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to show hostility toward, treat with enmity, vex, harass
1a2) vexer, harasser (participle) |
hay·yə·hū·ḏī·yīm
of the Jews .
| Grammar | Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3064 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) Jew |
ū·mā·rə·do·ḵay
And Mordecai
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4782 |
| BSB/Thayers | Mordecai = |little man| or |worshipper of Mars|
1) cousin and adoptive father of queen Esther; son of Jair of the tribe of Benjamin; deliverer under Divine providence of the children of Israel from the destruction plotted by Haman the chief minister of Ahasuerus; institutor of the feast of Purim
2) a Jew who returned from exile with Zerubbabel |
bā
entered
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 935 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to go in, enter, come, go, come in
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to enter, come in
1a2) to come
1a2a) to come with
1a2b) to come upon, fall or light upon, attack (enemy)
1a2c) to come to pass
1a3) to attain to
1a4) to be enumerated
1a5) to go
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to lead in
1b2) to carry in
1b3) to bring in, cause to come in, gather, cause to come, bring near, bring against, bring upon
1b4) to bring to pass
1c) (Hophal)
1c1) to be brought, brought in
1c2) to be introduced, be put |
ham·me·leḵ
the king’s
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
lip̄·nê
presence
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct |
| Strongs | 6440 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) face
1a) face, faces
1b) presence, person
1c) face (of seraphim or cherubim)
1d) face (of animals)
1e) face, surface (of ground)
1f) as adv of loc/temp
1f1) before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before
1g) with prep
1g1) in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of |
kî-
because
| Grammar | Conjunction |
| Strongs | 3588 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since
1a) that
1a1) yea, indeed
1b) when (of time)
1b1) when, if, though (with a concessive force)
1c) because, since (causal connection)
1d) but (after negative)
1e) that if, for if, indeed if, for though, but if
1f) but rather, but
1g) except that
1h) only, nevertheless
1i) surely
1j) that is
1k) but if
1l) for though
1m) forasmuch as, for therefore |
’es·têr
Esther
| Grammar | Noun - proper - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 635 |
| BSB/Thayers | Esther = |star|
1) the queen of Persia, heroine of the book of Esther-daughter of Abihail, cousin and adopted daughter of Mordecai, of the tribe of Benjamin, made queen by king Ahasuerus to replace divorced queen, Vashti. |
mah
. . .
| Grammar | Interrogative |
| Strongs | 4100 |
| BSB/Thayers | interr pron
1) what, how, of what kind
1a) (interrogative)
1a1) what?
1a2) of what kind
1a3) what? (rhetorical)
1a4) whatsoever, whatever, what
1b) (adverb)
1b1) how, how now
1b2) why
1b3) how! (exclamation)
1c) (with prep)
1c1) wherein?, whereby?, wherewith?, by what means?
1c2) because of what?
1c3) the like of what?
1c3a) how much?, how many?, how often?
1c3b) for how long?
1c4) for what reason?, why?, to what purpose?
1c5) until when?, how long?, upon what?, wherefore?
indef pron
2) anything, aught, what may |
hig·gî·ḏāh
had revealed
| Grammar | Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 5046 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to be conspicuous, tell, make known
1a) (Hiphil) to tell, declare
1a1) to tell, announce, report
1a2) to declare, make known, expound
1a3) to inform of
1a4) to publish, declare, proclaim
1a5) to avow, acknowledge, confess
1a5a) messenger (participle)
1b) (Hophal) to be told, be announced, be reported |
hū-
his relation
| Grammar | Pronoun - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 1931 |
| BSB/Thayers | pron 3p s
1) he, she, it
1a) himself (with emphasis)
1b) resuming subj with emphasis
1c) (with minimum emphasis following predicate)
1d) (anticipating subj)
1e) (emphasising predicate)
1f) that, it (neuter) demons pron
2) that (with article) |
lāh
to her .
| Grammar | Preposition | third person feminine singular |
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The king removed the signet ring he had recovered from Haman and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over the estate of Haman. |
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ham·me·leḵ
The king
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
’eṯ-
-
| Grammar | Direct object marker |
| Strongs | 853 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative |
way·yā·sar
removed
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 5493 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to turn aside, depart
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to turn aside, turn in unto
1a2) to depart, depart from way, avoid
1a3) to be removed
1a4) to come to an end
1b) (Polel) to turn aside
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to cause to turn aside, cause to depart, remove, take away, put away, depose
1c2) to put aside, leave undone, retract, reject, abolish
1d) (Hophal) to be taken away, be removed |
ṭab·ba‘·tōw
the signet ring
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2885 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) ring, signet, signet ring
1a) signet ring (as symbol of authority)
1b) ring (as ornament) |
’ă·šer
-
| Grammar | Pronoun - relative |
| Strongs | 834 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (relative part.)
1a) which, who
1b) that which
2) (conj)
2a) that (in obj clause)
2b) when
2c) since
2d) as
2e) conditional if |
he·‘ĕ·ḇîr
he had recovered
| Grammar | Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 5674 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to pass over or by or through, alienate, bring, carry, do away, take, take away, transgress
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to pass over, cross, cross over, pass over, march over, overflow, go over
1a2) to pass beyond
1a3) to pass through, traverse
1a3a) passers-through (participle)
1a3b) to pass through (the parts of victim in covenant)
1a4) to pass along, pass by, overtake and pass, sweep by
1a4a) passer-by (participle)
1a4b) to be past, be over
1a5) to pass on, go on, pass on before, go in advance of, pass along, travel, advance
1a6) to pass away
1a6a) to emigrate, leave (one's territory)
1a6b) to vanish
1a6c) to perish, cease to exist
1a6d) to become invalid, become obsolete (of law, decree)
1a6e) to be alienated, pass into other hands
1b) (Niphal) to be crossed
1c) (Piel) to impregnate, cause to cross
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to cause to pass over, cause to bring over, cause to cross over, make over to, dedicate, devote
1d2) to cause to pass through
1d3) to cause to pass by or beyond or under, let pass by
1d4) to cause to pass away, cause to take away
1e) (Hithpael) to pass over |
mê·hā·mān
from Haman
| Grammar | Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2001 |
| BSB/Thayers | Haman = |magnificent|
1) chief minister of Ahasuerus, enemy of Mordecai and the Jews, who plotted to kill the Jews but, being foiled by Esther, was hanged, with his family, on the gallows he had made for Mordecai |
way·yit·tə·nāh
and presented it
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 5414 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to give, put, set
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend, commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter, stretch out, extend
1a2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign, designate
1a3) to make, constitute
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be given, be bestowed, be provided, be entrusted to, be granted to, be permitted, be issued, be published, be uttered, be assigned
1b2) to be set, be put, be made, be inflicted
1c) (Hophal)
1c1) to be given, be bestowed, be given up, be delivered up
1c2) to be put upon |
lə·mā·rə·do·ḵāy
to Mordecai .
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4782 |
| BSB/Thayers | Mordecai = |little man| or |worshipper of Mars|
1) cousin and adoptive father of queen Esther; son of Jair of the tribe of Benjamin; deliverer under Divine providence of the children of Israel from the destruction plotted by Haman the chief minister of Ahasuerus; institutor of the feast of Purim
2) a Jew who returned from exile with Zerubbabel |
’es·têr
And Esther
| Grammar | Noun - proper - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 635 |
| BSB/Thayers | Esther = |star|
1) the queen of Persia, heroine of the book of Esther-daughter of Abihail, cousin and adopted daughter of Mordecai, of the tribe of Benjamin, made queen by king Ahasuerus to replace divorced queen, Vashti. |
’eṯ-
-
| Grammar | Direct object marker |
| Strongs | 853 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative |
wat·tā·śem
appointed
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 7760 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to put, place, set, appoint, make
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to put, set, lay, put or lay upon, lay (violent) hands on
1a2) to set, direct, direct toward
1a2a) to extend (compassion) (fig)
1a3) to set, ordain, establish, found, appoint, constitute, make, determine, fix
1a4) to set, station, put, set in place, plant, fix
1a5) to make, make for, transform into, constitute, fashion, work, bring to pass, appoint, give
1b) (Hiphil) to set or make for a sign
1c) (Hophal) to be set |
mā·rə·do·ḵay
Mordecai
| Grammar | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4782 |
| BSB/Thayers | Mordecai = |little man| or |worshipper of Mars|
1) cousin and adoptive father of queen Esther; son of Jair of the tribe of Benjamin; deliverer under Divine providence of the children of Israel from the destruction plotted by Haman the chief minister of Ahasuerus; institutor of the feast of Purim
2) a Jew who returned from exile with Zerubbabel |
‘al-
over
| Grammar | Preposition |
| Strongs | 5921 |
| BSB/Thayers | prep
1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against
1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards
1b) above, beyond, over (of excess)
1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence)
1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition)
1e) over (of suspension or extension)
1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity)
1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion)
1h) to (as a dative)
conj
2) because that, because, notwithstanding, although |
bêṯ
the estate
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 1004 |
| BSB/Thayers | nm
1) house
1a) house, dwelling habitation
1b) shelter or abode of animals
1c) human bodies (fig.)
1d) of Sheol
1e) of abode of light and darkness
1f) of land of Ephraim
2) place
3) receptacle
4) home, house as containing a family
5) household, family
5a) those belonging to the same household
5b) family of descendants, descendants as organized body
6) household affairs
7) inwards (metaph.)
8) (TWOT) temple
adv
9) on the inside
prep
10) within |
hā·mān
of Haman .
| Grammar | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2001 |
| BSB/Thayers | Haman = |magnificent|
1) chief minister of Ahasuerus, enemy of Mordecai and the Jews, who plotted to kill the Jews but, being foiled by Esther, was hanged, with his family, on the gallows he had made for Mordecai |
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And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews. |
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wat·tō·w·sep̄
And once again ,
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 3254 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to add, increase, do again
1a) (Qal) to add, increase, do again
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to join, join oneself to
1b2) to be joined, be added to
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to cause to add, increase
1c2) to do more, do again |
’es·têr
Esther
| Grammar | Noun - proper - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 635 |
| BSB/Thayers | Esther = |star|
1) the queen of Persia, heroine of the book of Esther-daughter of Abihail, cousin and adopted daughter of Mordecai, of the tribe of Benjamin, made queen by king Ahasuerus to replace divorced queen, Vashti. |
wat·tə·ḏab·bêr
addressed
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 1696 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing
1a) (Qal) to speak
1b) (Niphal) to speak with one another, talk
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to speak
1c2) to promise
1d) (Pual) to be spoken
1e) (Hithpael) to speak
1f) (Hiphil) to lead away, put to flight |
ham·me·leḵ
the king .
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
wat·tip·pōl
She fell
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 5307 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to fall, lie, be cast down, fail
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to fall
1a2) to fall (of violent death)
1a3) to fall prostrate, prostrate oneself before
1a4) to fall upon, attack, desert, fall away to, go away to, fall into the hand of
1a5) to fall short, fail, fall out, turn out, result
1a6) to settle, waste away, be offered, be inferior to
1a7) to lie, lie prostrate
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to cause to fall, fell, throw down, knock out, lay prostrate
1b2) to overthrow
1b3) to make the lot fall, assign by lot, apportion by lot
1b4) to let drop, cause to fail (fig.)
1b5) to cause to fall
1c) (Hithpael)
1c1) to throw or prostrate oneself, throw oneself upon
1c2) to lie prostrate, prostrate oneself
1d) (Pilel) to fall |
lip̄·nê
. . .
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct |
| Strongs | 6440 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) face
1a) face, faces
1b) presence, person
1c) face (of seraphim or cherubim)
1d) face (of animals)
1e) face, surface (of ground)
1f) as adv of loc/temp
1f1) before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before
1g) with prep
1g1) in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of |
lip̄·nê
at
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct |
| Strongs | 6440 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) face
1a) face, faces
1b) presence, person
1c) face (of seraphim or cherubim)
1d) face (of animals)
1e) face, surface (of ground)
1f) as adv of loc/temp
1f1) before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before
1g) with prep
1g1) in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of |
raḡ·lāw
his feet
| Grammar | Noun - feminine dual construct | third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 7272 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) foot
1a) foot, leg
1b) of God (anthropomorphic)
1c) of seraphim, cherubim, idols, animals, table
1d) according to the pace of (with prep)
1e) three times (feet, paces) |
wat·tê·ḇək
weeping
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 1058 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to weep, bewail, cry, shed tears
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to weep (in grief, humiliation, or joy)
1a2) to weep bitterly (with cognate acc.)
1a3) to weep upon (embrace and weep)
1a4) to bewail
1b) (Piel) participle
1b1) lamenting
1b2) bewailing |
wat·tiṯ·ḥan·nen-
and begged
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 2603 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to be gracious, show favour, pity
1a) (Qal) to show favour, be gracious
1b) (Niphal) to be pitied
1c) (Piel) to make gracious, make favourable, be gracious
1d) (Poel) to direct favour to, have mercy on
1e) (Hophal) to be shown favour, be shown consideration
1f) (Hithpael) to seek favour, implore favour
2) to be loathsome |
lōw
him
| Grammar | Preposition | third person masculine singular |
lə·ha·‘ă·ḇîr
to revoke
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct |
| Strongs | 5674 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to pass over or by or through, alienate, bring, carry, do away, take, take away, transgress
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to pass over, cross, cross over, pass over, march over, overflow, go over
1a2) to pass beyond
1a3) to pass through, traverse
1a3a) passers-through (participle)
1a3b) to pass through (the parts of victim in covenant)
1a4) to pass along, pass by, overtake and pass, sweep by
1a4a) passer-by (participle)
1a4b) to be past, be over
1a5) to pass on, go on, pass on before, go in advance of, pass along, travel, advance
1a6) to pass away
1a6a) to emigrate, leave (one's territory)
1a6b) to vanish
1a6c) to perish, cease to exist
1a6d) to become invalid, become obsolete (of law, decree)
1a6e) to be alienated, pass into other hands
1b) (Niphal) to be crossed
1c) (Piel) to impregnate, cause to cross
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to cause to pass over, cause to bring over, cause to cross over, make over to, dedicate, devote
1d2) to cause to pass through
1d3) to cause to pass by or beyond or under, let pass by
1d4) to cause to pass away, cause to take away
1e) (Hithpael) to pass over |
’eṯ-
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| Grammar | Direct object marker |
| Strongs | 853 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative |
rā·‘aṯ
the evil
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular construct |
| Strongs | 7451 |
| BSB/Thayers | adj
1) bad, evil
1a) bad, disagreeable, malignant
1b) bad, unpleasant, evil (giving pain, unhappiness, misery)
1c) evil, displeasing
1d) bad (of its kind-land, water, etc)
1e) bad (of value)
1f) worse than, worst (comparison)
1g) sad, unhappy
1h) evil (hurtful)
1i) bad, unkind (vicious in disposition)
1j) bad, evil, wicked (ethically)
1j1) in general, of persons, of thoughts
1j2) deeds, actions
n m
2) evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity
2a) evil, distress, adversity
2b) evil, injury, wrong
2c) evil (ethical)
n f
3) evil, misery, distress, injury
3a) evil, misery, distress
3b) evil, injury, wrong
3c) evil (ethical) |
wə·’êṯ
-
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker |
| Strongs | 853 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative |
ma·ḥă·šaḇ·tōw
scheme
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4284 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) thought, device
1a) thought
1b) device, plan, purpose
1c) invention |
hā·mān
of Haman
| Grammar | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2001 |
| BSB/Thayers | Haman = |magnificent|
1) chief minister of Ahasuerus, enemy of Mordecai and the Jews, who plotted to kill the Jews but, being foiled by Esther, was hanged, with his family, on the gallows he had made for Mordecai |
hā·’ă·ḡā·ḡî
the Agagite ,
| Grammar | Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 91 |
| BSB/Thayers | Agagite = |I will overtop|
1) said of Haman, Haman the Agagite |
’ă·šer
which
| Grammar | Pronoun - relative |
| Strongs | 834 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (relative part.)
1a) which, who
1b) that which
2) (conj)
2a) that (in obj clause)
2b) when
2c) since
2d) as
2e) conditional if |
ḥā·šaḇ
he had devised
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2803 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to think, account
1a2) to plan, devise, mean
1a3) to charge, impute, reckon
1a4) to esteem, value, regard
1a5) to invent
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be accounted, be thought, be esteemed
1b2) to be computed, be reckoned
1b3) to be imputed
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to think upon, consider, be mindful of
1c2) to think to do, devise, plan
1c3) to count, reckon
1d) (Hithpael) to be considered |
‘al-
against
| Grammar | Preposition |
| Strongs | 5921 |
| BSB/Thayers | prep
1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against
1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards
1b) above, beyond, over (of excess)
1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence)
1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition)
1e) over (of suspension or extension)
1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity)
1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion)
1h) to (as a dative)
conj
2) because that, because, notwithstanding, although |
hay·yə·hū·ḏîm
the Jews .
| Grammar | Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3064 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) Jew |
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ham·me·leḵ
The king
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
way·yō·wō·šeṭ
extended
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3447 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (Hiphil) to hold out, extend |
haz·zā·hāḇ
the gold
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2091 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) gold
1a) as precious metal
1b) as a measure of weight
1c) of brilliance, splendour (fig.) |
šar·ḇiṭ
scepter
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 8275 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) sceptre
2) (TWOT) dart, spear |
lə·’es·têr
toward Esther ,
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 635 |
| BSB/Thayers | Esther = |star|
1) the queen of Persia, heroine of the book of Esther-daughter of Abihail, cousin and adopted daughter of Mordecai, of the tribe of Benjamin, made queen by king Ahasuerus to replace divorced queen, Vashti. |
’êṯ
-
| Grammar | Direct object marker |
| Strongs | 853 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative |
’es·têr
and [she]
| Grammar | Noun - proper - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 635 |
| BSB/Thayers | Esther = |star|
1) the queen of Persia, heroine of the book of Esther-daughter of Abihail, cousin and adopted daughter of Mordecai, of the tribe of Benjamin, made queen by king Ahasuerus to replace divorced queen, Vashti. |
wat·tā·qām
arose
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 6965 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to rise, arise, stand, rise up, stand up
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to arise
1a2) to arise (hostile sense)
1a3) to arise, become powerful
1a4) to arise, come on the scene
1a5) to stand
1a5a) to maintain oneself
1a5b) to be established, be confirmed
1a5c) to stand, endure
1a5d) to be fixed
1a5e) to be valid
1a5f) to be proven
1a5g) to be fulfilled
1a5h) to persist
1a5i) to be set, be fixed
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to fulfil
1b2) to confirm, ratify, establish, impose
1c) (Polel) to raise up
1d) (Hithpael) to raise oneself, rise up
1e) (Hiphil)
1e1) to cause to arise, raise
1e2) to raise, set up, erect, build
1e3) to raise up, bring on the scene
1e4) to raise up, rouse, stir up, investigate
1e5) to raise up, constitute
1e6) to cause to stand, set, station, establish
1e7) to make binding
1e8) to carry out, give effect to
1f) (Hophal) to be raised up |
wat·ta·‘ă·mōḏ
and stood
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 5975 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to stand, remain, endure, take one's stand
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to stand, take one's stand, be in a standing attitude, stand forth, take a stand, present oneself, attend upon, be or become servant of
1a2) to stand still, stop (moving or doing), cease
1a3) to tarry, delay, remain, continue, abide, endure, persist, be steadfast
1a4) to make a stand, hold one's ground
1a5) to stand upright, remain standing, stand up, rise, be erect, be upright
1a6) to arise, appear, come on the scene, stand forth, appear, rise up or against
1a7) to stand with, take one's stand, be appointed, grow flat, grow insipid
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to station, set
1b2) to cause to stand firm, maintain
1b3) to cause to stand up, cause to set up, erect
1b4) to present (one) before (king)
1b5) to appoint, ordain, establish
1c) (Hophal) to be presented, be caused to stand, be stood before |
lip̄·nê
before
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct |
| Strongs | 6440 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) face
1a) face, faces
1b) presence, person
1c) face (of seraphim or cherubim)
1d) face (of animals)
1e) face, surface (of ground)
1f) as adv of loc/temp
1f1) before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before
1g) with prep
1g1) in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of |
ham·me·leḵ
the king .
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
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’im-
“ If
| Grammar | Conjunction |
| Strongs | 518 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) if
1a) conditional clauses
1a1) of possible situations
1a2) of impossible situations
1b) oath contexts
1b1) no, not
1c) if...if, whether...or, whether...or...or
1d) when, whenever
1e) since
1f) interrogative particle
1g) but rather |
‘al-
it pleases
| Grammar | Preposition |
| Strongs | 5921 |
| BSB/Thayers | prep
1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against
1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards
1b) above, beyond, over (of excess)
1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence)
1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition)
1e) over (of suspension or extension)
1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity)
1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion)
1h) to (as a dative)
conj
2) because that, because, notwithstanding, although |
ṭō·wḇ
. . .
| Grammar | Adjective - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2896 |
| BSB/Thayers | adj
1) good, pleasant, agreeable
1a) pleasant, agreeable (to the senses)
1b) pleasant (to the higher nature)
1c) good, excellent (of its kind)
1d) good, rich, valuable in estimation
1e) good, appropriate, becoming
1f) better (comparative)
1g) glad, happy, prosperous (of man's sensuous nature)
1h) good understanding (of man's intellectual nature)
1i) good, kind, benign
1j) good, right (ethical)
n m
2) a good thing, benefit, welfare
2a) welfare, prosperity, happiness
2b) good things (collective)
2c) good, benefit
2d) moral good
n f
3) welfare, benefit, good things
3a) welfare, prosperity, happiness
3b) good things (collective)
3c) bounty |
wə·’im-
. . .
| Grammar | Conjunction |
| Strongs | 518 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) if
1a) conditional clauses
1a1) of possible situations
1a2) of impossible situations
1b) oath contexts
1b1) no, not
1c) if...if, whether...or, whether...or...or
1d) when, whenever
1e) since
1f) interrogative particle
1g) but rather |
ham·me·leḵ
the king , ”
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
wat·tō·mer
she said ,
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 559 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to say, speak, utter
1a) (Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one's heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend
1b) (Niphal) to be told, to be said, to be called
1c) (Hithpael) to boast, to act proudly
1d) (Hiphil) to avow, to avouch |
mā·ṣā·ṯî
“ and if I have found
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular |
| Strongs | 4672 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to find, attain to
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to find
1a1a) to find, secure, acquire, get (thing sought)
1a1b) to find (what is lost)
1a1c) to meet, encounter
1a1d) to find (a condition)
1a1e) to learn, devise
1a2) to find out
1a2a) to find out
1a2b) to detect
1a2c) to guess
1a3) to come upon, light upon
1a3a) to happen upon, meet, fall in with
1a3b) to hit
1a3c) to befall
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be found
1b1a) to be encountered, be lighted upon, be discovered
1b1b) to appear, be recognised
1b1c) to be discovered, be detected
1b1d) to be gained, be secured
1b2) to be, be found
1b2a) to be found in
1b2b) to be in the possession of
1b2c) to be found in (a place), happen to be
1b2d) to be left (after war)
1b2e) to be present
1b2f) to prove to be
1b2g) to be found sufficient, be enough
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to cause to find, attain
1c2) to cause to light upon, come upon, come
1c3) to cause to encounter
1c4) to present (offering) |
ḥên
favor
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2580 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) favour, grace, charm
1a) favour, grace, elegance
1b) favour, acceptance |
lə·p̄ā·nāw
in his sight ,
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct | third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 6440 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) face
1a) face, faces
1b) presence, person
1c) face (of seraphim or cherubim)
1d) face (of animals)
1e) face, surface (of ground)
1f) as adv of loc/temp
1f1) before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before
1g) with prep
1g1) in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of |
had·dā·ḇār
and the matter
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 1697 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) speech, word, speaking, thing
1a) speech
1b) saying, utterance
1c) word, words
1d) business, occupation, acts, matter, case, something, manner (by extension) |
wə·ḵā·šêr
[seems] proper
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3787 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to succeed, please, be suitable, be proper, be advantageous, be right and proper to
1a) (Qal) to please, be proper
1b) (Hiphil) to give success |
lip̄·nê
to
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct |
| Strongs | 6440 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) face
1a) face, faces
1b) presence, person
1c) face (of seraphim or cherubim)
1d) face (of animals)
1e) face, surface (of ground)
1f) as adv of loc/temp
1f1) before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before
1g) with prep
1g1) in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of |
ham·me·leḵ
the king ,
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
’ă·nî
and I
| Grammar | Pronoun - first person common singular |
| Strongs | 589 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) I (first pers. sing. -usually used for emphasis) |
wə·ṭō·w·ḇāh
am pleasing
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Adjective - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 2896 |
| BSB/Thayers | adj
1) good, pleasant, agreeable
1a) pleasant, agreeable (to the senses)
1b) pleasant (to the higher nature)
1c) good, excellent (of its kind)
1d) good, rich, valuable in estimation
1e) good, appropriate, becoming
1f) better (comparative)
1g) glad, happy, prosperous (of man's sensuous nature)
1h) good understanding (of man's intellectual nature)
1i) good, kind, benign
1j) good, right (ethical)
n m
2) a good thing, benefit, welfare
2a) welfare, prosperity, happiness
2b) good things (collective)
2c) good, benefit
2d) moral good
n f
3) welfare, benefit, good things
3a) welfare, prosperity, happiness
3b) good things (collective)
3c) bounty |
bə·‘ê·nāw
in his sight ,
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - cdc | third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 5869 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) eye
1a) eye
1a1) of physical eye
1a2) as showing mental qualities
1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)
2) spring, fountain |
yik·kā·ṯêḇ
may an order be written
| Grammar | Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3789 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to write, record, enrol
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on
1a2) to write down, describe in writing
1a3) to register, enrol, record
1a4) to decree
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be written
1b2) to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled
1c) (Piel) to continue writing |
lə·hā·šîḇ
to revoke
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct |
| Strongs | 7725 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to return, turn back
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to turn back, return
1a1a) to turn back
1a1b) to return, come or go back
1a1c) to return unto, go back, come back
1a1d) of dying
1a1e) of human relations (fig)
1a1f) of spiritual relations (fig)
1a1f1) to turn back (from God), apostatise
1a1f2) to turn away (of God)
1a1f3) to turn back (to God), repent
1a1f4) turn back (from evil)
1a1g) of inanimate things
1a1h) in repetition
1b) (Polel)
1b1) to bring back
1b2) to restore, refresh, repair (fig)
1b3) to lead away (enticingly)
1b4) to show turning, apostatise
1c) (Pual) restored (participle)
1d) (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back
1d1) to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment
1d2) to bring back, refresh, restore
1d3) to bring back, report to, answer
1d4) to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense)
1d5) to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse
1d6) to turn away (face), turn toward
1d7) to turn against
1d8) to bring back to mind
1d9) to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke
1e) (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back
1f) (Pulal) brought back |
’eṯ-
-
| Grammar | Direct object marker |
| Strongs | 853 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative |
has·sə·p̄ā·rîm
the letters
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 5612 |
| BSB/Thayers | n f
1) book
n m
2) missive, document, writing, book
2a) missive
2a1) letter (of instruction), written order, commission, request, written decree
2b) legal document, certificate of divorce, deed of purchase, indictment, sign
2c) book, scroll
2c1) book of prophecies
2c2) genealogical register
2c3) law-book
2c4) book (of poems)
2c5) book (of kings)
2c6) books of the canon, scripture
2c7) record book (of God)
2d) book-learning, writing
2d1) be able to read (after verb 'to know') |
ma·ḥă·še·ḇeṯ
that the scheming
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular construct |
| Strongs | 4284 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) thought, device
1a) thought
1b) device, plan, purpose
1c) invention |
hā·mān
Haman
| Grammar | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2001 |
| BSB/Thayers | Haman = |magnificent|
1) chief minister of Ahasuerus, enemy of Mordecai and the Jews, who plotted to kill the Jews but, being foiled by Esther, was hanged, with his family, on the gallows he had made for Mordecai |
ben-
son
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 1121 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) son, grandson, child, member of a group
1a) son, male child
1b) grandson
1c) children (pl. - male and female)
1d) youth, young men (pl.)
1e) young (of animals)
1f) sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels]
1g) people (of a nation) (pl.)
1h) of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.)
1i) a member of a guild, order, class |
ham·mə·ḏā·ṯā
of Hammedatha ,
| Grammar | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4099 |
| BSB/Thayers | Hammedatha = |double|
1) father of Haman |
hā·’ă·ḡā·ḡî
the Agagite ,
| Grammar | Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 91 |
| BSB/Thayers | Agagite = |I will overtop|
1) said of Haman, Haman the Agagite |
kā·ṯaḇ
wrote
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3789 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to write, record, enrol
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on
1a2) to write down, describe in writing
1a3) to register, enrol, record
1a4) to decree
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be written
1b2) to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled
1c) (Piel) to continue writing |
lə·’ab·bêḏ
to destroy
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct |
| Strongs | 6 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed
1a) (Qal)
1a1) perish, die, be exterminated
1a2) perish, vanish (fig.)
1a3) be lost, strayed
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate
1b2) to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.)
1b3) cause to stray, lose
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to destroy, put to death
1c1a) of divine judgment
1c2) object name of kings (fig.) |
’eṯ-
-
| Grammar | Direct object marker |
| Strongs | 853 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative |
hay·yə·hū·ḏîm
the Jews
| Grammar | Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3064 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) Jew |
’ă·šer
-
| Grammar | Pronoun - relative |
| Strongs | 834 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (relative part.)
1a) which, who
1b) that which
2) (conj)
2a) that (in obj clause)
2b) when
2c) since
2d) as
2e) conditional if |
’ă·šer
-
| Grammar | Pronoun - relative |
| Strongs | 834 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (relative part.)
1a) which, who
1b) that which
2) (conj)
2a) that (in obj clause)
2b) when
2c) since
2d) as
2e) conditional if |
bə·ḵāl
in all
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 3605 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) all, the whole
1a) all, the whole of
1b) any, each, every, anything
1c) totality, everything |
ham·me·leḵ
the king’s
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
mə·ḏî·nō·wṯ
provinces .
| Grammar | Noun - feminine plural construct |
| Strongs | 4082 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) province, district
1a) district
1b) province |
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For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?” |
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kî
For
| Grammar | Conjunction |
| Strongs | 3588 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since
1a) that
1a1) yea, indeed
1b) when (of time)
1b1) when, if, though (with a concessive force)
1c) because, since (causal connection)
1d) but (after negative)
1e) that if, for if, indeed if, for though, but if
1f) but rather, but
1g) except that
1h) only, nevertheless
1i) surely
1j) that is
1k) but if
1l) for though
1m) forasmuch as, for therefore |
’ê·ḵā·ḵāh
how
| Grammar | Interjection |
| Strongs | 349 |
| BSB/Thayers | interrog adv
1) how?
interj
2) how! (in lamentation)
3) expression of satisfaction |
’ū·ḵal
could I bear
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular |
| Strongs | 3201 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to prevail, overcome, endure, have power, be able
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be able, be able to gain or accomplish, be able to endure, be able to reach
1a2) to prevail, prevail over or against, overcome, be victor
1a3) to have ability, have strength |
wə·rā·’î·ṯî
to see
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular |
| Strongs | 7200 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to see
1a2) to see, perceive
1a3) to see, have vision
1a4) to look at, see, regard, look after, see after, learn about, observe, watch, look upon, look out, find out
1a5) to see, observe, consider, look at, give attention to, discern, distinguish
1a6) to look at, gaze at
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to appear, present oneself
1b2) to be seen
1b3) to be visible
1c) (Pual) to be seen
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to cause to see, show
1d2) to cause to look intently at, behold, cause to gaze at
1e) (Hophal)
1e1) to be caused to see, be shown
1e2) to be exhibited to
1f) (Hithpael) to look at each other, face |
bā·rā·‘āh
the disaster
| Grammar | Preposition-b, Article | Adjective - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 7451 |
| BSB/Thayers | adj
1) bad, evil
1a) bad, disagreeable, malignant
1b) bad, unpleasant, evil (giving pain, unhappiness, misery)
1c) evil, displeasing
1d) bad (of its kind-land, water, etc)
1e) bad (of value)
1f) worse than, worst (comparison)
1g) sad, unhappy
1h) evil (hurtful)
1i) bad, unkind (vicious in disposition)
1j) bad, evil, wicked (ethically)
1j1) in general, of persons, of thoughts
1j2) deeds, actions
n m
2) evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity
2a) evil, distress, adversity
2b) evil, injury, wrong
2c) evil (ethical)
n f
3) evil, misery, distress, injury
3a) evil, misery, distress
3b) evil, injury, wrong
3c) evil (ethical) |
’ă·šer-
that
| Grammar | Pronoun - relative |
| Strongs | 834 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (relative part.)
1a) which, who
1b) that which
2) (conj)
2a) that (in obj clause)
2b) when
2c) since
2d) as
2e) conditional if |
yim·ṣā
would befall
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4672 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to find, attain to
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to find
1a1a) to find, secure, acquire, get (thing sought)
1a1b) to find (what is lost)
1a1c) to meet, encounter
1a1d) to find (a condition)
1a1e) to learn, devise
1a2) to find out
1a2a) to find out
1a2b) to detect
1a2c) to guess
1a3) to come upon, light upon
1a3a) to happen upon, meet, fall in with
1a3b) to hit
1a3c) to befall
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be found
1b1a) to be encountered, be lighted upon, be discovered
1b1b) to appear, be recognised
1b1c) to be discovered, be detected
1b1d) to be gained, be secured
1b2) to be, be found
1b2a) to be found in
1b2b) to be in the possession of
1b2c) to be found in (a place), happen to be
1b2d) to be left (after war)
1b2e) to be present
1b2f) to prove to be
1b2g) to be found sufficient, be enough
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to cause to find, attain
1c2) to cause to light upon, come upon, come
1c3) to cause to encounter
1c4) to present (offering) |
’eṯ-
-
| Grammar | Direct object marker |
| Strongs | 853 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative |
‘am·mî
my people ?
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular |
| Strongs | 5971 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) nation, people
1a) people, nation
1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
2) kinsman, kindred |
wə·’ê·ḵā·ḵāh
How
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Interjection |
| Strongs | 349 |
| BSB/Thayers | interrog adv
1) how?
interj
2) how! (in lamentation)
3) expression of satisfaction |
’ū·ḵal
could I bear
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular |
| Strongs | 3201 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to prevail, overcome, endure, have power, be able
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be able, be able to gain or accomplish, be able to endure, be able to reach
1a2) to prevail, prevail over or against, overcome, be victor
1a3) to have ability, have strength |
wə·rā·’î·ṯî
to see
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular |
| Strongs | 7200 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to see
1a2) to see, perceive
1a3) to see, have vision
1a4) to look at, see, regard, look after, see after, learn about, observe, watch, look upon, look out, find out
1a5) to see, observe, consider, look at, give attention to, discern, distinguish
1a6) to look at, gaze at
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to appear, present oneself
1b2) to be seen
1b3) to be visible
1c) (Pual) to be seen
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to cause to see, show
1d2) to cause to look intently at, behold, cause to gaze at
1e) (Hophal)
1e1) to be caused to see, be shown
1e2) to be exhibited to
1f) (Hithpael) to look at each other, face |
bə·’ā·ḇə·ḏan
the destruction
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 13 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) destruction |
mō·w·laḏ·tî
of my kindred ? ”
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular |
| Strongs | 4138 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) kindred, birth, offspring, relatives
1a) kindred
1b) birth, circumstances of birth
1c) one born, begotten, issue, offspring, female offspring |
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So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews. |
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ham·me·leḵ
So King
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
’ă·ḥaš·wê·rōš
Xerxes
| Grammar | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 325 |
| BSB/Thayers | Ahasuerus = |I will be silent and poor|
1) title of the king of Persia, probably Xerxes |
way·yō·mer
said
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 559 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to say, speak, utter
1a) (Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one's heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend
1b) (Niphal) to be told, to be said, to be called
1c) (Hithpael) to boast, to act proudly
1d) (Hiphil) to avow, to avouch |
lə·’es·têr
to Esther
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 635 |
| BSB/Thayers | Esther = |star|
1) the queen of Persia, heroine of the book of Esther-daughter of Abihail, cousin and adopted daughter of Mordecai, of the tribe of Benjamin, made queen by king Ahasuerus to replace divorced queen, Vashti. |
ham·mal·kāh
the Queen
| Grammar | Article | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 4436 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) queen |
ū·lə·mā·rə·do·ḵay
and Mordecai
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4782 |
| BSB/Thayers | Mordecai = |little man| or |worshipper of Mars|
1) cousin and adoptive father of queen Esther; son of Jair of the tribe of Benjamin; deliverer under Divine providence of the children of Israel from the destruction plotted by Haman the chief minister of Ahasuerus; institutor of the feast of Purim
2) a Jew who returned from exile with Zerubbabel |
hay·yə·hū·ḏî
the Jew ,
| Grammar | Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3064 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) Jew |
hin·nêh
“ Behold ,
| Grammar | Interjection |
| Strongs | 2009 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) behold, lo, see, if |
nā·ṯat·tî
I have given
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular |
| Strongs | 5414 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to give, put, set
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend, commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter, stretch out, extend
1a2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign, designate
1a3) to make, constitute
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be given, be bestowed, be provided, be entrusted to, be granted to, be permitted, be issued, be published, be uttered, be assigned
1b2) to be set, be put, be made, be inflicted
1c) (Hophal)
1c1) to be given, be bestowed, be given up, be delivered up
1c2) to be put upon |
hā·mān
Haman’s
| Grammar | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2001 |
| BSB/Thayers | Haman = |magnificent|
1) chief minister of Ahasuerus, enemy of Mordecai and the Jews, who plotted to kill the Jews but, being foiled by Esther, was hanged, with his family, on the gallows he had made for Mordecai |
ḇêṯ-
estate
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 1004 |
| BSB/Thayers | nm
1) house
1a) house, dwelling habitation
1b) shelter or abode of animals
1c) human bodies (fig.)
1d) of Sheol
1e) of abode of light and darkness
1f) of land of Ephraim
2) place
3) receptacle
4) home, house as containing a family
5) household, family
5a) those belonging to the same household
5b) family of descendants, descendants as organized body
6) household affairs
7) inwards (metaph.)
8) (TWOT) temple
adv
9) on the inside
prep
10) within |
lə·’es·têr
to Esther ,
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Noun - proper - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 635 |
| BSB/Thayers | Esther = |star|
1) the queen of Persia, heroine of the book of Esther-daughter of Abihail, cousin and adopted daughter of Mordecai, of the tribe of Benjamin, made queen by king Ahasuerus to replace divorced queen, Vashti. |
wə·’ō·ṯōw
-
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker | third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 853 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative |
tā·lū
and he was hanged
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural |
| Strongs | 8518 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to hang
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to hang
1a1a) to hang up (any object)
1a1b) to put to death by hanging
1b) (Niphal) to be hanged
1c) (Piel) to hang, hang up (for display) |
‘al-
on
| Grammar | Preposition |
| Strongs | 5921 |
| BSB/Thayers | prep
1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against
1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards
1b) above, beyond, over (of excess)
1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence)
1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition)
1e) over (of suspension or extension)
1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity)
1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion)
1h) to (as a dative)
conj
2) because that, because, notwithstanding, although |
hā·‘êṣ
the gallows
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 6086 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows
1a) tree, trees
1b) wood, pieces of wood, gallows, firewood, cedar-wood, woody flax |
‘al
because
| Grammar | Preposition |
| Strongs | 5921 |
| BSB/Thayers | prep
1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against
1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards
1b) above, beyond, over (of excess)
1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence)
1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition)
1e) over (of suspension or extension)
1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity)
1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion)
1h) to (as a dative)
conj
2) because that, because, notwithstanding, although |
’ă·šer-
-
| Grammar | Pronoun - relative |
| Strongs | 834 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (relative part.)
1a) which, who
1b) that which
2) (conj)
2a) that (in obj clause)
2b) when
2c) since
2d) as
2e) conditional if |
šā·laḥ
he attacked
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 7971 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to send, send away, let go, stretch out
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to send
1a2) to stretch out, extend, direct
1a3) to send away
1a4) to let loose
1b) (Niphal) to be sent
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to send off or away or out or forth, dismiss, give over, cast out
1c2) to let go, set free
1c3) to shoot forth (of branches)
1c4) to let down
1c5) to shoot
1d) (Pual) to be sent off, be put away, be divorced, be impelled
1e) (Hiphil) to send |
yā·ḏōw
. . .
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3027 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) hand
1a) hand (of man)
1b) strength, power (fig.)
1c) side (of land), part, portion (metaph.) (fig.)
1d) (various special, technical senses)
1d1) sign, monument
1d2) part, fractional part, share
1d3) time, repetition
1d4) axle-trees, axle
1d5) stays, support (for laver)
1d6) tenons (in tabernacle)
1d7) a phallus, a hand (meaning unsure)
1d8) wrists |
bay·yə·hū·ḏī·yīm
the Jews .
| Grammar | Preposition-b, Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3064 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) Jew |
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Now you may write in the king’s name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.” |
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wə·’at·tem
Now you
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine plural |
| Strongs | 859 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) you (second pers. sing. masc.) |
kiṯ·ḇū
may write
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3789 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to write, record, enrol
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on
1a2) to write down, describe in writing
1a3) to register, enrol, record
1a4) to decree
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be written
1b2) to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled
1c) (Piel) to continue writing |
ham·me·leḵ
in the king’s
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
bə·šêm
name
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 8034 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) name
1a) name
1b) reputation, fame, glory
1c) the Name (as designation of God)
1d) memorial, monument |
kaṭ·ṭō·wḇ
as
| Grammar | Preposition-k, Article | Adjective - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2896 |
| BSB/Thayers | adj
1) good, pleasant, agreeable
1a) pleasant, agreeable (to the senses)
1b) pleasant (to the higher nature)
1c) good, excellent (of its kind)
1d) good, rich, valuable in estimation
1e) good, appropriate, becoming
1f) better (comparative)
1g) glad, happy, prosperous (of man's sensuous nature)
1h) good understanding (of man's intellectual nature)
1i) good, kind, benign
1j) good, right (ethical)
n m
2) a good thing, benefit, welfare
2a) welfare, prosperity, happiness
2b) good things (collective)
2c) good, benefit
2d) moral good
n f
3) welfare, benefit, good things
3a) welfare, prosperity, happiness
3b) good things (collective)
3c) bounty |
bə·‘ê·nê·ḵem
you please
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - cdc | second person masculine plural |
| Strongs | 5869 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) eye
1a) eye
1a1) of physical eye
1a2) as showing mental qualities
1a3) of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)
2) spring, fountain |
‘al-
regarding
| Grammar | Preposition |
| Strongs | 5921 |
| BSB/Thayers | prep
1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against
1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards
1b) above, beyond, over (of excess)
1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence)
1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition)
1e) over (of suspension or extension)
1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity)
1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion)
1h) to (as a dative)
conj
2) because that, because, notwithstanding, although |
hay·yə·hū·ḏîm
the Jews ,
| Grammar | Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3064 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) Jew |
wə·ḥiṯ·mū
and seal it
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 2856 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to seal, seal up, affix a seal
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to seal, affix one's seal
1a2) to seal up, fasten up by sealing
1b) (Niphal) to seal
1c) (Piel) to lock up
1d) (Hiphil) to be stopped |
ham·me·leḵ
with the royal
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
kî-
. . .
| Grammar | Conjunction |
| Strongs | 3588 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since
1a) that
1a1) yea, indeed
1b) when (of time)
1b1) when, if, though (with a concessive force)
1c) because, since (causal connection)
1d) but (after negative)
1e) that if, for if, indeed if, for though, but if
1f) but rather, but
1g) except that
1h) only, nevertheless
1i) surely
1j) that is
1k) but if
1l) for though
1m) forasmuch as, for therefore |
bə·ṭab·ba·‘aṯ
signet ring .
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct |
| Strongs | 2885 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) ring, signet, signet ring
1a) signet ring (as symbol of authority)
1b) ring (as ornament) |
ḵə·ṯāḇ
For a decree
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3791 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) a writing, document, edict
1a) register, enrolment, roll
1b) mode of writing, character, letter
1c) letter, document, a writing
1d) a written edict
1d1) of royal enactment
1d2) of divine authority |
’ă·šer-
that
| Grammar | Pronoun - relative |
| Strongs | 834 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (relative part.)
1a) which, who
1b) that which
2) (conj)
2a) that (in obj clause)
2b) when
2c) since
2d) as
2e) conditional if |
niḵ·tāḇ
is written
| Grammar | Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3789 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to write, record, enrol
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on
1a2) to write down, describe in writing
1a3) to register, enrol, record
1a4) to decree
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be written
1b2) to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled
1c) (Piel) to continue writing |
bə·šêm-
in the name
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 8034 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) name
1a) name
1b) reputation, fame, glory
1c) the Name (as designation of God)
1d) memorial, monument |
ham·me·leḵ
of the king
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
wə·naḥ·tō·wm
and sealed
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Infinitive absolute |
| Strongs | 2856 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to seal, seal up, affix a seal
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to seal, affix one's seal
1a2) to seal up, fasten up by sealing
1b) (Niphal) to seal
1c) (Piel) to lock up
1d) (Hiphil) to be stopped |
ham·me·leḵ
with the royal
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
bə·ṭab·ba·‘aṯ
signet ring
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct |
| Strongs | 2885 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) ring, signet, signet ring
1a) signet ring (as symbol of authority)
1b) ring (as ornament) |
’ên
cannot
| Grammar | Adverb |
| Strongs | 369 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) nothing, not, nought n
1a) nothing, nought neg
1b) not
1c) to have not (of possession) adv
1d) without w/prep
1e) for lack of |
lə·hā·šîḇ
be revoked . ”
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct |
| Strongs | 7725 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to return, turn back
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to turn back, return
1a1a) to turn back
1a1b) to return, come or go back
1a1c) to return unto, go back, come back
1a1d) of dying
1a1e) of human relations (fig)
1a1f) of spiritual relations (fig)
1a1f1) to turn back (from God), apostatise
1a1f2) to turn away (of God)
1a1f3) to turn back (to God), repent
1a1f4) turn back (from evil)
1a1g) of inanimate things
1a1h) in repetition
1b) (Polel)
1b1) to bring back
1b2) to restore, refresh, repair (fig)
1b3) to lead away (enticingly)
1b4) to show turning, apostatise
1c) (Pual) restored (participle)
1d) (Hiphil) to cause to return, bring back
1d1) to bring back, allow to return, put back, draw back, give back, restore, relinquish, give in payment
1d2) to bring back, refresh, restore
1d3) to bring back, report to, answer
1d4) to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense)
1d5) to turn back or backward, repel, defeat, repulse, hinder, reject, refuse
1d6) to turn away (face), turn toward
1d7) to turn against
1d8) to bring back to mind
1d9) to show a turning away 1d10) to reverse, revoke
1e) (Hophal) to be returned, be restored, be brought back
1f) (Pulal) brought back |
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At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language. |
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bā·‘êṯ-
At once
| Grammar | Preposition-b, Article | Noun - common singular |
| Strongs | 6256 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) time
1a) time (of an event)
1b) time (usual)
1c) experiences, fortunes
1d) occurrence, occasion |
ham·me·leḵ
the royal
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
sō·p̄ə·rê-
scribes
| Grammar | Noun - masculine plural construct |
| Strongs | 5613 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) scribe, secretary |
way·yiq·qā·rə·’ū
were summoned ,
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural |
| Strongs | 7121 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to call, call out, recite, read, cry out, proclaim
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to call, cry, utter a loud sound
1a2) to call unto, cry (for help), call (with name of God)
1a3) to proclaim
1a4) to read aloud, read (to oneself), read
1a5) to summon, invite, call for, call and commission, appoint, call and endow
1a6) to call, name, give name to, call by
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to call oneself
1b2) to be called, be proclaimed, be read aloud, be summoned, be named
1c) (Pual) to be called, be named, be called out, be chosen |
biš·lō·wō·šāh
and on the twenty-third [day]
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Number - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 7969 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) three, triad
1a) 3, 300, third |
wə·‘eś·rîm
. . .
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural |
| Strongs | 6242 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) twenty, twentieth |
bōw
| Grammar | Preposition | third person masculine singular |
haš·šə·lî·šî
of the third
| Grammar | Article | Number - ordinal masculine singular |
| Strongs | 7992 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) third, one third, third part, third time
1a) ordinal number |
hū-
. . .
| Grammar | Pronoun - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 1931 |
| BSB/Thayers | pron 3p s
1) he, she, it
1a) himself (with emphasis)
1b) resuming subj with emphasis
1c) (with minimum emphasis following predicate)
1d) (anticipating subj)
1e) (emphasising predicate)
1f) that, it (neuter) demons pron
2) that (with article) |
ba·ḥō·ḏeš
month
| Grammar | Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2320 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) the new moon, month, monthly
1a) the first day of the month
1b) the lunar month |
ha·hî
( vvv
| Grammar | Article | Pronoun - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 1931 |
| BSB/Thayers | pron 3p s
1) he, she, it
1a) himself (with emphasis)
1b) resuming subj with emphasis
1c) (with minimum emphasis following predicate)
1d) (anticipating subj)
1e) (emphasising predicate)
1f) that, it (neuter) demons pron
2) that (with article) |
ḥō·ḏeš
the month
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 2320 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) the new moon, month, monthly
1a) the first day of the month
1b) the lunar month |
sî·wān
of Sivan ),
| Grammar | Noun - proper - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 5510 |
| Footnote | Sivan is the third month of the Hebrew lunar calendar, usually occurring within the months of May and June. |
| BSB/Thayers | Sivan = |their covering|
1) the 3rd month in the Jewish calendar corresponding to May-Jun |
way·yik·kā·ṯêḇ
they recorded
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3789 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to write, record, enrol
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on
1a2) to write down, describe in writing
1a3) to register, enrol, record
1a4) to decree
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be written
1b2) to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled
1c) (Piel) to continue writing |
kə·ḵāl-
all of
| Grammar | Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 3605 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) all, the whole
1a) all, the whole of
1b) any, each, every, anything
1c) totality, everything |
’ă·šer-
-
| Grammar | Pronoun - relative |
| Strongs | 834 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (relative part.)
1a) which, who
1b) that which
2) (conj)
2a) that (in obj clause)
2b) when
2c) since
2d) as
2e) conditional if |
mā·rə·do·ḵay
Mordecai’s
| Grammar | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4782 |
| BSB/Thayers | Mordecai = |little man| or |worshipper of Mars|
1) cousin and adoptive father of queen Esther; son of Jair of the tribe of Benjamin; deliverer under Divine providence of the children of Israel from the destruction plotted by Haman the chief minister of Ahasuerus; institutor of the feast of Purim
2) a Jew who returned from exile with Zerubbabel |
ṣiw·wāh
orders
| Grammar | Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 6680 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to command, charge, give orders, lay charge, give charge to, order
1a)(Piel)
1a1) to lay charge upon
1a2) to give charge to, give command to
1a3) to give charge unto
1a4) to give charge over, appoint
1a5) to give charge, command
1a6) to charge, command
1a7) to charge, commission
1a8) to command, appoint, ordain (of divine act)
1b) (Pual) to be commanded |
’el-
to
| Grammar | Preposition |
| Strongs | 413 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to, toward, unto (of motion)
2) into (limit is actually entered)
2a) in among
3) toward (of direction, not necessarily physical motion)
4) against (motion or direction of a hostile character)
5) in addition to, to
6) concerning, in regard to, in reference to, on account of
7) according to (rule or standard)
8) at, by, against (of one's presence)
9) in between, in within, to within, unto (idea of motion to) |
hay·yə·hū·ḏîm
the Jews
| Grammar | Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3064 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) Jew |
wə·’el
and to
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Preposition |
| Strongs | 413 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to, toward, unto (of motion)
2) into (limit is actually entered)
2a) in among
3) toward (of direction, not necessarily physical motion)
4) against (motion or direction of a hostile character)
5) in addition to, to
6) concerning, in regard to, in reference to, on account of
7) according to (rule or standard)
8) at, by, against (of one's presence)
9) in between, in within, to within, unto (idea of motion to) |
hā·’ă·ḥaš·dar·pə·nîm-
the satraps ,
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 323 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) satrap, a governor of a Persian province |
wə·hap·pa·ḥō·wṯ
governors ,
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 6346 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) governor |
wə·śā·rê
and princes
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct |
| Strongs | 8269 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) prince, ruler, leader, chief, chieftain, official, captain
1a) chieftain, leader
1b) vassal, noble, official (under king)
1c) captain, general, commander (military)
1d) chief, head, overseer (of other official classes)
1e) heads, princes (of religious office)
1f) elders (of representative leaders of people)
1g) merchant-princes (of rank and dignity)
1h) patron-angel
1i) Ruler of rulers (of God)
1j) warden |
še·ḇa‘
of the 127
| Grammar | Number - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 7651 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) seven (cardinal number)
1a) as ordinal number
1b) in combination-17, 700 etc |
wə·‘eś·rîm
. . .
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Number - common plural |
| Strongs | 6242 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) twenty, twentieth |
ū·mê·’āh
. . .
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Number - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 3967 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) hundred
1a) as simple number
1b) as part of larger number
1c) as a fraction-one one-hundredth (1/100) |
ham·mə·ḏî·nō·wṯ
provinces
| Grammar | Article | Noun - feminine plural |
| Strongs | 4082 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) province, district
1a) district
1b) province |
’ă·šer
| Grammar | Pronoun - relative |
| Strongs | 834 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (relative part.)
1a) which, who
1b) that which
2) (conj)
2a) that (in obj clause)
2b) when
2c) since
2d) as
2e) conditional if |
mê·hōd·dū
from India
| Grammar | Preposition-m | Noun - proper - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 1912 |
| BSB/Thayers | India = |flee away| or | give ye thanks|
1) the country surrounding the Indus, mentioned as the eastern border of the empire of Ahasuerus |
wə·‘aḏ-
to
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Preposition |
| Strongs | 5704 |
| BSB/Thayers | prep
1) as far as, even to, until, up to, while, as far as
1a) of space
1a1) as far as, up to, even to
1b) in combination
1b1) from...as far as, both...and (with 'min' -from)
1c) of time
1c1) even to, until, unto, till, during, end
1d) of degree
1d1) even to, to the degree of, even like
conj
2) until, while, to the point that, so that even |
kūš
Cush —
| Grammar | Noun - proper - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 3568 |
| Footnote | That is, to the upper Nile region |
| BSB/Thayers | Cush = |black|
n pr m
1) a Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Ps 7:1
2) the son of Ham and grandson of Noah and the progenitor of the southernmost peoples located in Africa
3) the peoples descended from Cush
n pr loc
4) the land occupied by the descendants of Cush located around the southern parts of the Nile (Ethiopia) |
mə·ḏî·nāh
[writing] to each province
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 4082 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) province, district
1a) district
1b) province |
mə·ḏî·nāh
. . .
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 4082 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) province, district
1a) district
1b) province |
ū·mə·ḏî·nāh
in its own script ,
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 4082 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) province, district
1a) district
1b) province |
kiḵ·ṯā·ḇāh
. . .
| Grammar | Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 3791 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) a writing, document, edict
1a) register, enrolment, roll
1b) mode of writing, character, letter
1c) letter, document, a writing
1d) a written edict
1d1) of royal enactment
1d2) of divine authority |
wə·‘am
vvv
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 5971 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) nation, people
1a) people, nation
1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
2) kinsman, kindred |
wā·‘ām
to every people
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 5971 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) nation, people
1a) people, nation
1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
2) kinsman, kindred |
kil·šō·nōw
in their own language ,
| Grammar | Preposition-k | Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3956 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) tongue
1a) tongue (of men)
1a1) tongue (literal)
1a2) tongue (organ of speech)
1b) language
1c) tongue (of animals)
1d) tongue (of fire)
1e) wedge, bay of sea (tongue-shaped) |
wə·’el-
and to
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Preposition |
| Strongs | 413 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to, toward, unto (of motion)
2) into (limit is actually entered)
2a) in among
3) toward (of direction, not necessarily physical motion)
4) against (motion or direction of a hostile character)
5) in addition to, to
6) concerning, in regard to, in reference to, on account of
7) according to (rule or standard)
8) at, by, against (of one's presence)
9) in between, in within, to within, unto (idea of motion to) |
hay·yə·hū·ḏîm
the Jews
| Grammar | Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3064 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) Jew |
kiḵ·ṯā·ḇām
in their own script
| Grammar | Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3791 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) a writing, document, edict
1a) register, enrolment, roll
1b) mode of writing, character, letter
1c) letter, document, a writing
1d) a written edict
1d1) of royal enactment
1d2) of divine authority |
wə·ḵil·šō·w·nām
and language .
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k | Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3956 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) tongue
1a) tongue (of men)
1a1) tongue (literal)
1a2) tongue (organ of speech)
1b) language
1c) tongue (of animals)
1d) tongue (of fire)
1e) wedge, bay of sea (tongue-shaped) |
מְדִינָ֔הmə·ḏî·nāh [writing] to each province |
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Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares. |
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way·yiḵ·tōḇ
Mordecai wrote
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3789 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to write, record, enrol
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on
1a2) to write down, describe in writing
1a3) to register, enrol, record
1a4) to decree
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be written
1b2) to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled
1c) (Piel) to continue writing |
bə·šêm
in the name
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 8034 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) name
1a) name
1b) reputation, fame, glory
1c) the Name (as designation of God)
1d) memorial, monument |
ham·me·leḵ
of King
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
’ă·ḥaš·wê·rōš
Xerxes
| Grammar | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 325 |
| BSB/Thayers | Ahasuerus = |I will be silent and poor|
1) title of the king of Persia, probably Xerxes |
way·yaḥ·tōm
and sealed it
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2856 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to seal, seal up, affix a seal
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to seal, affix one's seal
1a2) to seal up, fasten up by sealing
1b) (Niphal) to seal
1c) (Piel) to lock up
1d) (Hiphil) to be stopped |
ham·me·leḵ
with the royal
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
bə·ṭab·ba·‘aṯ
signet ring .
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct |
| Strongs | 2885 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) ring, signet, signet ring
1a) signet ring (as symbol of authority)
1b) ring (as ornament) |
way·yiš·laḥ
He sent
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 7971 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to send, send away, let go, stretch out
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to send
1a2) to stretch out, extend, direct
1a3) to send away
1a4) to let loose
1b) (Niphal) to be sent
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to send off or away or out or forth, dismiss, give over, cast out
1c2) to let go, set free
1c3) to shoot forth (of branches)
1c4) to let down
1c5) to shoot
1d) (Pual) to be sent off, be put away, be divorced, be impelled
1e) (Hiphil) to send |
sə·p̄ā·rîm
the documents
| Grammar | Noun - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 5612 |
| BSB/Thayers | n f
1) book
n m
2) missive, document, writing, book
2a) missive
2a1) letter (of instruction), written order, commission, request, written decree
2b) legal document, certificate of divorce, deed of purchase, indictment, sign
2c) book, scroll
2c1) book of prophecies
2c2) genealogical register
2c3) law-book
2c4) book (of poems)
2c5) book (of kings)
2c6) books of the canon, scripture
2c7) record book (of God)
2d) book-learning, writing
2d1) be able to read (after verb 'to know') |
bə·yaḏ
by
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct |
| Strongs | 3027 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) hand
1a) hand (of man)
1b) strength, power (fig.)
1c) side (of land), part, portion (metaph.) (fig.)
1d) (various special, technical senses)
1d1) sign, monument
1d2) part, fractional part, share
1d3) time, repetition
1d4) axle-trees, axle
1d5) stays, support (for laver)
1d6) tenons (in tabernacle)
1d7) a phallus, a hand (meaning unsure)
1d8) wrists |
bas·sū·sîm
mounted
| Grammar | Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 5483 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) swallow, swift
2) horse
2a) chariot horses |
hā·rā·ṣîm
couriers
| Grammar | Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 7323 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to run
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to run
1a2) runners (participle as subst)
1b) (Polel) to run swiftly, dart
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to bring or move quickly, hurry
1c2) to drive away from, cause to run away |
rō·ḵə·ḇê
riding on
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct |
| Strongs | 7392 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to mount and ride, ride
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to mount, mount and sit or ride
1a2) to ride, be riding
1a3) rider (subst)
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to cause to ride, cause to (mount and) ride
1b2) to cause to draw (plough, etc)
1b3) to cause to ride upon (fig) |
hā·re·ḵeš
swift horses
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 7409 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) steeds, horses |
bə·nê
bred
| Grammar | Noun - masculine plural construct |
| Strongs | 1121 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) son, grandson, child, member of a group
1a) son, male child
1b) grandson
1c) children (pl. - male and female)
1d) youth, young men (pl.)
1e) young (of animals)
1f) sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels]
1g) people (of a nation) (pl.)
1h) of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.)
1i) a member of a guild, order, class |
hā·’ă·ḥaš·tə·rā·nîm
from the royal
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 327 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) royal (steeds) |
hā·ram·mā·ḵîm
mares .
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 7424 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) mare
1a) meaning dubious |
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By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions. |
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’ă·šer
By these letters
| Grammar | Pronoun - relative |
| Strongs | 834 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (relative part.)
1a) which, who
1b) that which
2) (conj)
2a) that (in obj clause)
2b) when
2c) since
2d) as
2e) conditional if |
ham·me·leḵ
the king
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
nā·ṯan
permitted
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 5414 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to give, put, set
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend, commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter, stretch out, extend
1a2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign, designate
1a3) to make, constitute
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be given, be bestowed, be provided, be entrusted to, be granted to, be permitted, be issued, be published, be uttered, be assigned
1b2) to be set, be put, be made, be inflicted
1c) (Hophal)
1c1) to be given, be bestowed, be given up, be delivered up
1c2) to be put upon |
lay·yə·hū·ḏîm
the Jews
| Grammar | Preposition-l, Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3064 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) Jew |
’ă·šer
-
| Grammar | Pronoun - relative |
| Strongs | 834 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (relative part.)
1a) which, who
1b) that which
2) (conj)
2a) that (in obj clause)
2b) when
2c) since
2d) as
2e) conditional if |
bə·ḵāl
in each
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 3605 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) all, the whole
1a) all, the whole of
1b) any, each, every, anything
1c) totality, everything |
‘îr-
and every city
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular construct |
| Strongs | 5892 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) excitement, anguish
1a) of terror
2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
2a) city, town |
wā·‘îr
. . .
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 5892 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) excitement, anguish
1a) of terror
2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
2a) city, town |
lə·hiq·qā·hêl
the right to assemble
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Verb - Nifal - Infinitive construct |
| Strongs | 6950 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to assemble, gather
1a) (Niphal) to assemble
1a1) for religious reasons
1a2) for political reasons
1b) (Hiphil) to summon an assembly
1b1) for war, judgment
1b2) for religious purposes |
‘al-
and defend
| Grammar | Preposition |
| Strongs | 5921 |
| BSB/Thayers | prep
1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against
1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards
1b) above, beyond, over (of excess)
1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence)
1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition)
1e) over (of suspension or extension)
1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity)
1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion)
1h) to (as a dative)
conj
2) because that, because, notwithstanding, although |
wə·la·‘ă·mōḏ
. . .
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct |
| Strongs | 5975 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to stand, remain, endure, take one's stand
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to stand, take one's stand, be in a standing attitude, stand forth, take a stand, present oneself, attend upon, be or become servant of
1a2) to stand still, stop (moving or doing), cease
1a3) to tarry, delay, remain, continue, abide, endure, persist, be steadfast
1a4) to make a stand, hold one's ground
1a5) to stand upright, remain standing, stand up, rise, be erect, be upright
1a6) to arise, appear, come on the scene, stand forth, appear, rise up or against
1a7) to stand with, take one's stand, be appointed, grow flat, grow insipid
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to station, set
1b2) to cause to stand firm, maintain
1b3) to cause to stand up, cause to set up, erect
1b4) to present (one) before (king)
1b5) to appoint, ordain, establish
1c) (Hophal) to be presented, be caused to stand, be stood before |
nap̄·šām
themselves ,
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural |
| Strongs | 5315 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion
1a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
1b) living being
1c) living being (with life in the blood)
1d) the man himself, self, person or individual
1e) seat of the appetites
1f) seat of emotions and passions
1g) activity of mind
1g1) dubious
1h) activity of the will
1h1) dubious
1i) activity of the character
1i1) dubious |
lə·haš·mîḏ
to destroy ,
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Verb - Hifil - Infinitive construct |
| Strongs | 8045 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated
1a) (Niphal)
1a1) to be annihilated, be exterminated
1a2) to be destroyed, be devastated
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to annihilate, exterminate
1b2) to destroy |
wə·la·hă·rōḡ
kill ,
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct |
| Strongs | 2026 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to kill, slay, murder, destroy, murderer, slayer, out of hand
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to kill, slay
1a2) to destroy, ruin
1b) (Niphal) to be killed
1c) (Pual) to be killed, be slain |
ū·lə·’ab·bêḏ
and annihilate
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct |
| Strongs | 6 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed
1a) (Qal)
1a1) perish, die, be exterminated
1a2) perish, vanish (fig.)
1a3) be lost, strayed
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate
1b2) to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.)
1b3) cause to stray, lose
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to destroy, put to death
1c1a) of divine judgment
1c2) object name of kings (fig.) |
’eṯ-
-
| Grammar | Direct object marker |
| Strongs | 853 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative |
kāl-
all
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 3605 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) all, the whole
1a) all, the whole of
1b) any, each, every, anything
1c) totality, everything |
ḥêl
the forces
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 2428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) strength, might, efficiency, wealth, army
1a) strength
1b) ability, efficiency
1c) wealth
1d) force, army |
‘am
of any people
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 5971 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) nation, people
1a) people, nation
1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
2) kinsman, kindred |
ū·mə·ḏî·nāh
or province
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 4082 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) province, district
1a) district
1b) province |
haṣ·ṣā·rîm
hostile to them ,
| Grammar | Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 6696 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to bind, besiege, confine, cramp
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to confine, secure
1a2) to shut in, beseige
1a3) to shut up, enclose
2) (Qal) to show hostility to, be an adversary, treat as foe
3) (Qal) to form, fashion, delineate |
’ō·ṯām
-
| Grammar | Direct object marker | third person masculine plural |
| Strongs | 853 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative |
wə·nā·šîm
including women
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural |
| Strongs | 802 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) woman, wife, female
1a) woman (opposite of man)
1b) wife (woman married to a man)
1c) female (of animals)
1d) each, every (pronoun) |
ṭap̄
and children ,
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2945 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) children, little children, little ones |
ū·šə·lā·lām
and to plunder
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural |
| Strongs | 7998 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) prey, plunder, spoil, booty
1a) prey
1b) booty, spoil, plunder (of war)
1c) plunder (private)
1d) gain (meaning dubious) |
lā·ḇō·wz
their possessions .
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct |
| Strongs | 962 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to spoil, plunder, prey upon, seize
1a) (Qal) to spoil, plunder, despoil
1b) (Niphal) to be spoiled, plundered
1c) (Pual) to be taken as spoil |
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The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar. |
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’e·ḥāḏ
The single
| Grammar | Number - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 259 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) one (number)
1a) one (number)
1b) each, every
1c) a certain
1d) an (indefinite article)
1e) only, once, once for all
1f) one...another, the one...the other, one after another, one by one
1g) first
1h) eleven (in combination), eleventh (ordinal) |
bə·yō·wm
day [appointed]
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3117 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) day, time, year
1a) day (as opposed to night)
1b) day (24 hour period)
1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
1b2) as a division of time
1b2a) a working day, a day's journey
1c) days, lifetime (pl.)
1d) time, period (general)
1e) year
1f) temporal references
1f1) today
1f2) yesterday
1f3) tomorrow |
bə·ḵāl
throughout all
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 3605 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) all, the whole
1a) all, the whole of
1b) any, each, every, anything
1c) totality, everything |
mə·ḏî·nō·wṯ
the provinces
| Grammar | Noun - feminine plural construct |
| Strongs | 4082 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) province, district
1a) district
1b) province |
ham·me·leḵ
of King
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
’ă·ḥaš·wê·rō·wōš
Xerxes
| Grammar | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 325 |
| BSB/Thayers | Ahasuerus = |I will be silent and poor|
1) title of the king of Persia, probably Xerxes |
biš·lō·wō·šāh
[was] the thirteenth
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Number - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 7969 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) three, triad
1a) 3, 300, third |
‘ā·śār
. . .
| Grammar | Number - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 6240 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) ten, -teen (in combination with other numbers)
1a) used only in combination to make the numbers 11-19 |
šə·nêm-
day of the twelfth
| Grammar | Number - md |
| Strongs | 8147 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) two
1a) two (the cardinal number)
1a1) two, both, double, twice
1b) second (the ordinal number)
1c) in combination with other numbers
1d) both (a dual number) |
‘ā·śār
. . .
| Grammar | Number - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 6240 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) ten, -teen (in combination with other numbers)
1a) used only in combination to make the numbers 11-19 |
hū-
. . .
| Grammar | Pronoun - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 1931 |
| BSB/Thayers | pron 3p s
1) he, she, it
1a) himself (with emphasis)
1b) resuming subj with emphasis
1c) (with minimum emphasis following predicate)
1d) (anticipating subj)
1e) (emphasising predicate)
1f) that, it (neuter) demons pron
2) that (with article) |
lə·ḥō·ḏeš
month ,
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2320 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) the new moon, month, monthly
1a) the first day of the month
1b) the lunar month |
ḥō·ḏeš
the month
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 2320 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) the new moon, month, monthly
1a) the first day of the month
1b) the lunar month |
’ă·ḏār
of Adar .
| Grammar | Noun - proper - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 143 |
| Footnote | Adar is the twelfth month of the Hebrew lunar calendar, usually occurring within the months of February and March. |
| BSB/Thayers | Adar = |glorious|
1) twelfth month, corresponding to modern March-April |
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A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies. |
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paṯ·še·ḡen
A copy
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 6572 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) copy |
hak·kə·ṯāḇ
of the text
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3791 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) a writing, document, edict
1a) register, enrolment, roll
1b) mode of writing, character, letter
1c) letter, document, a writing
1d) a written edict
1d1) of royal enactment
1d2) of divine authority |
dāṯ
of the edict
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 1881 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) decree, law, edict, regulation, usage
1a) decree, edict, commission
1b) law, rule |
lə·hin·nā·ṯên
was to be issued
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Verb - Nifal - Infinitive construct |
| Strongs | 5414 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to give, put, set
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend, commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter, stretch out, extend
1a2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign, designate
1a3) to make, constitute
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be given, be bestowed, be provided, be entrusted to, be granted to, be permitted, be issued, be published, be uttered, be assigned
1b2) to be set, be put, be made, be inflicted
1c) (Hophal)
1c1) to be given, be bestowed, be given up, be delivered up
1c2) to be put upon |
bə·ḵāl
in every
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 3605 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) all, the whole
1a) all, the whole of
1b) any, each, every, anything
1c) totality, everything |
mə·ḏî·nāh
province
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 4082 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) province, district
1a) district
1b) province |
ū·mə·ḏî·nāh
. . .
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 4082 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) province, district
1a) district
1b) province |
gā·lui
and published
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 1540 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to uncover, remove
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to uncover
1a2) to remove, depart
1a3) to go into exile
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) (reflexive)
1b1a) to uncover oneself
1b1b) to discover or show oneself
1b1c) to reveal himself (of God)
1b2) (passive)
1b2a) to be uncovered
1b2b) to be disclosed, be discovered
1b2c) to be revealed
1b3) to be removed
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to uncover (nakedness)
1c1a) nakedness
1c1b) general
1c2) to disclose, discover, lay bare
1c3) to make known, show, reveal
1d) (Pual) to be uncovered
1e) (Hiphil) to carry away into exile, take into exile
1f) (Hophal) to be taken into exile
1g) (Hithpael)
1g1) to be uncovered
1g2) to reveal oneself |
lə·ḵāl
to all
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 3605 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) all, the whole
1a) all, the whole of
1b) any, each, every, anything
1c) totality, everything |
hā·‘am·mîm
the people ,
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 5971 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) nation, people
1a) people, nation
1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
2) kinsman, kindred |
hay·yə·hū·ḏī·yīm
so that the Jews
| Grammar | Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3064 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) Jew |
wə·lih·yō·wṯ
would be
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct |
| Strongs | 1961 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out
1a) (Qal)
1a1) -----
1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass
1a1b) to come about, come to pass
1a2) to come into being, become
1a2a) to arise, appear, come
1a2b) to become
1a2b1) to become
1a2b2) to become like
1a2b3) to be instituted, be established
1a3) to be
1a3a) to exist, be in existence
1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time)
1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality)
1a3d) to accompany, be with
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about
1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone |
ʿă·ṯū·ḏīm
ready
| Grammar | Adjective - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 6259 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) ready, prepared |
haz·zeh
on that
| Grammar | Article | Pronoun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2088 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) this, this one, here, which, this...that, the one...the other, another, such
1a) (alone)
1a1) this one
1a2) this...that, the one...the other, another
1b) (appos to subst)
1b1) this
1c) (as predicate)
1c1) this, such
1d) (enclitically)
1d1) then
1d2) who, whom
1d3) how now, what now
1d4) what now
1d5) wherefore now
1d6) behold here
1d7) just now
1d8) now, now already
1e) (poetry)
1e1) wherein, which, those who
1f) (with prefixes)
1f1) in this (place) here, then
1f2) on these conditions, herewith, thus provided, by, through this, for this cause, in this matter
1f3) thus and thus
1f4) as follows, things such as these, accordingly, to that effect, in like manner, thus and thus
1f5) from here, hence, on one side...on the other side
1f6) on this account
1f7) in spite of this, which, whence, how |
lay·yō·wm
day
| Grammar | Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3117 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) day, time, year
1a) day (as opposed to night)
1b) day (24 hour period)
1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
1b2) as a division of time
1b2a) a working day, a day's journey
1c) days, lifetime (pl.)
1d) time, period (general)
1e) year
1f) temporal references
1f1) today
1f2) yesterday
1f3) tomorrow |
lə·hin·nā·qêm
to avenge themselves
| Grammar | Preposition-l | Verb - Nifal - Infinitive construct |
| Strongs | 5358 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to avenge, take vengeance, revenge, avenge oneself, be avenged, be punished
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to avenge, take vengeance
1a2) to entertain revengeful feelings
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to avenge oneself
1b2) to suffer vengeance
1c) (Piel) to avenge
1d) (Hophal) to be avenged, vengeance be taken (for blood)
1e) (Hithpael) to avenge oneself |
mê·’ō·yə·ḇê·hem
on their enemies .
| Grammar | Preposition-m | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural |
| Strongs | 341 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (Qal) enemy
1a) personal
1b) national |
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The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa. |
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hā·rā·ṣîm
The couriers
| Grammar | Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 7323 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to run
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to run
1a2) runners (participle as subst)
1b) (Polel) to run swiftly, dart
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to bring or move quickly, hurry
1c2) to drive away from, cause to run away |
rō·ḵə·ḇê
rode
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct |
| Strongs | 7392 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to mount and ride, ride
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to mount, mount and sit or ride
1a2) to ride, be riding
1a3) rider (subst)
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to cause to ride, cause to (mount and) ride
1b2) to cause to draw (plough, etc)
1b3) to cause to ride upon (fig) |
yā·ṣə·’ū
out
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural |
| Strongs | 3318 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to go out, come out, exit, go forth
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to go or come out or forth, depart
1a2) to go forth (to a place)
1a3) to go forward, proceed to (to or toward something)
1a4) to come or go forth (with purpose or for result)
1a5) to come out of
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to cause to go or come out, bring out, lead out
1b2) to bring out of
1b3) to lead out
1b4) to deliver
1c) (Hophal) to be brought out or forth |
mə·ḇō·hā·lîm
in haste
| Grammar | Verb - Pual - Participle - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 926 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to disturb, alarm, terrify, hurry, be disturbed, be anxious, be afraid, be hurried, be nervous
1a) (Niphal)
1a1) to be disturbed, dismayed, terrified, anxious
1a2) to be in haste, be hasty
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to make haste, act hastily, be hurried, be hastened
1b2) to dismay, terrify
1c) (Pual)
1c1) to hasten
1c2) hastened, hastily gained (part.)
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to hasten, hurry, make haste
1d2) to dismay, terrify |
hā·’ă·ḥaš·tə·rā·nîm
on their royal
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 327 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) royal (steeds) |
hā·re·ḵeš
horses ,
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 7409 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) steeds, horses |
ū·ḏə·ḥū·p̄îm
pressed on
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 1765 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to drive on, hurry, hasten
1a) (Qal) to hasten
1b) (Niphal) to hasten oneself, hurry |
biḏ·ḇar
by the command
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 1697 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) speech, word, speaking, thing
1a) speech
1b) saying, utterance
1c) word, words
1d) business, occupation, acts, matter, case, something, manner (by extension) |
ham·me·leḵ
of the king .
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
wə·had·dāṯ
And the edict
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 1881 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) decree, law, edict, regulation, usage
1a) decree, edict, commission
1b) law, rule |
nit·tə·nāh
was also issued
| Grammar | Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 5414 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to give, put, set
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend, commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter, stretch out, extend
1a2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign, designate
1a3) to make, constitute
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be given, be bestowed, be provided, be entrusted to, be granted to, be permitted, be issued, be published, be uttered, be assigned
1b2) to be set, be put, be made, be inflicted
1c) (Hophal)
1c1) to be given, be bestowed, be given up, be delivered up
1c2) to be put upon |
hab·bî·rāh
in the citadel
| Grammar | Article | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 1002 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) palace, castle
2) temple |
bə·šū·šan
of Susa .
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 7800 |
| BSB/Thayers | Shushan or Susa = |lily|
1) the winter residence of the Persian kings; located on the river Ulai or Choaspes |
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Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of blue and white, with a large gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced. |
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ū·mā·rə·do·ḵay
Mordecai
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4782 |
| BSB/Thayers | Mordecai = |little man| or |worshipper of Mars|
1) cousin and adoptive father of queen Esther; son of Jair of the tribe of Benjamin; deliverer under Divine providence of the children of Israel from the destruction plotted by Haman the chief minister of Ahasuerus; institutor of the feast of Purim
2) a Jew who returned from exile with Zerubbabel |
yā·ṣā
went out
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3318 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to go out, come out, exit, go forth
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to go or come out or forth, depart
1a2) to go forth (to a place)
1a3) to go forward, proceed to (to or toward something)
1a4) to come or go forth (with purpose or for result)
1a5) to come out of
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to cause to go or come out, bring out, lead out
1b2) to bring out of
1b3) to lead out
1b4) to deliver
1c) (Hophal) to be brought out or forth |
mil·lip̄·nê
from the presence
| Grammar | Preposition-m, Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct |
| Strongs | 6440 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) face
1a) face, faces
1b) presence, person
1c) face (of seraphim or cherubim)
1d) face (of animals)
1e) face, surface (of ground)
1f) as adv of loc/temp
1f1) before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before
1g) with prep
1g1) in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of |
ham·me·leḵ
of the king
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
bil·ḇūš
in royal garments
| Grammar | Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 3830 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) clothing, garment, apparel, raiment |
mal·ḵūṯ
. . .
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular construct |
| Strongs | 4438 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) royalty, royal power, reign, kingdom, sovereign power
1a) royal power, dominion
1b) reign
1c) kingdom, realm |
tə·ḵê·leṯ
of blue
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 8504 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) violet, violet stuff
1a) violet thread
1b) violet stuff or fabric
2) (TWOT) blue (covering spectrum from brilliant red through deep purple) |
wā·ḥūr
and white ,
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2353 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) white cloth, white stuff |
gə·ḏō·w·lāh
with a large
| Grammar | Adjective - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 1419 |
| BSB/Thayers | adj
1) great
1a) large (in magnitude and extent)
1b) in number
1c) in intensity
1d) loud (in sound)
1e) older (in age)
1f) in importance
1f1) important things
1f2) great, distinguished (of men)
1f3) God Himself (of God)
subst
1g) great things
1h) haughty things
1i) greatness
n pr m
1j) (CLBL) Haggedolim, the great man?, father of Zabdiel |
zā·hāḇ
gold
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2091 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) gold
1a) as precious metal
1b) as a measure of weight
1c) of brilliance, splendour (fig.) |
wa·‘ă·ṭe·reṯ
crown
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct |
| Strongs | 5850 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) crown, wreath |
wə·’ar·gā·mān
and a purple
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 713 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) purple, red-purple |
wə·ṯaḵ·rîḵ
robe
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 8509 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) robe |
būṣ
of fine linen .
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 948 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) byssus, a costly, fine white linen cloth made in Egypt |
wə·hā·‘îr
And the city
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 5892 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) excitement, anguish
1a) of terror
2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
2a) city, town |
šū·šān
of Susa
| Grammar | Noun - proper - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 7800 |
| BSB/Thayers | Shushan or Susa = |lily|
1) the winter residence of the Persian kings; located on the river Ulai or Choaspes |
ṣā·hă·lāh
shouted
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 6670 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to neigh, cry shrilly
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to neigh (of men as stallions-fig.)
1a2) (Piel) to cry shrilly (in distress)
2) (Hiphil) to make shining |
wə·śā·mê·ḥāh
and rejoiced .
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 8055 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to rejoice, be glad
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to rejoice
1a2) to rejoice (arrogantly), exult (at)
1a3) to rejoice (religiously)
1b) (Piel) to cause to rejoice, gladden, make glad
1c) (Hiphil) to cause to rejoice, gladden, make glad |
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For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor. |
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lay·yə·hū·ḏîm
For the Jews
| Grammar | Preposition-l, Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3064 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) Jew |
hā·yə·ṯāh
it was a time of
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular |
| Strongs | 1961 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to be, become, come to pass, exist, happen, fall out
1a) (Qal)
1a1) -----
1a1a) to happen, fall out, occur, take place, come about, come to pass
1a1b) to come about, come to pass
1a2) to come into being, become
1a2a) to arise, appear, come
1a2b) to become
1a2b1) to become
1a2b2) to become like
1a2b3) to be instituted, be established
1a3) to be
1a3a) to exist, be in existence
1a3b) to abide, remain, continue (with word of place or time)
1a3c) to stand, lie, be in, be at, be situated (with word of locality)
1a3d) to accompany, be with
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to occur, come to pass, be done, be brought about
1b2) to be done, be finished, be gone |
’ō·w·rāh
light
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 219 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) light
2) light of joy and happiness (fig.) |
wə·śim·ḥāh
and gladness ,
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 8057 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) joy, mirth, gladness
1a) mirth, gladness, joy, gaiety, pleasure
1b) joy (of God)
1c) glad result, happy issue |
wə·śā·śōn
of joy
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 8342 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) gladness, joy, exultation, rejoicing
1a) exultation, joy |
wî·qār
and honor .
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3366 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) price, value, preciousness, honour, splendour, pomp
1a) preciousness
1b) price
1c) honour, esteem |
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In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them. |
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ū·ḇə·ḵāl
In every
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 3605 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) all, the whole
1a) all, the whole of
1b) any, each, every, anything
1c) totality, everything |
mə·ḏî·nāh
province
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 4082 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) province, district
1a) district
1b) province |
ū·mə·ḏî·nāh
. . .
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 4082 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) province, district
1a) district
1b) province |
ū·ḇə·ḵāl
and every
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 3605 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) all, the whole
1a) all, the whole of
1b) any, each, every, anything
1c) totality, everything |
‘îr
city
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 5892 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) excitement, anguish
1a) of terror
2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
2a) city, town |
wā·‘îr
. . . ,
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 5892 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) excitement, anguish
1a) of terror
2) city, town (a place of waking, guarded)
2a) city, town |
mə·qō·wm
wherever
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 4725 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) standing place, place
1a) standing place, station, post, office
1b) place, place of human abode
1c) city, land, region
1d) place, locality, spot
1e) space, room, distance
1f) region, quarter, direction
1g) give place to, instead of |
’ă·šer
-
| Grammar | Pronoun - relative |
| Strongs | 834 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (relative part.)
1a) which, who
1b) that which
2) (conj)
2a) that (in obj clause)
2b) when
2c) since
2d) as
2e) conditional if |
ham·me·leḵ
the king’s
| Grammar | Article | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4428 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) king |
də·ḇar-
edict
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 1697 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) speech, word, speaking, thing
1a) speech
1b) saying, utterance
1c) word, words
1d) business, occupation, acts, matter, case, something, manner (by extension) |
wə·ḏā·ṯōw
and decree
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 1881 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) decree, law, edict, regulation, usage
1a) decree, edict, commission
1b) law, rule |
mag·gî·a‘
reached ,
| Grammar | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 5060 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to touch, reach, strike
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to touch
1a2) to strike
1a3) to reach, extend to
1a4) to be stricken
1a4a) stricken (participle)
1b) (Niphal) to be stricken, be defeated
1c) (Piel) to strike
1d) (Pual) to be stricken (by disease)
1e) (Hiphil) to cause to touch, reach, approach, arrive
1e1) to cause to touch, apply
1e2) to reach, extend, attain, arrive, come
1e3) to approach (of time)
1e4) to befall (of fate) |
śim·ḥāh
there was joy
| Grammar | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 8057 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) joy, mirth, gladness
1a) mirth, gladness, joy, gaiety, pleasure
1b) joy (of God)
1c) glad result, happy issue |
wə·śā·śō·wn
and gladness
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 8342 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) gladness, joy, exultation, rejoicing
1a) exultation, joy |
lay·yə·hū·ḏîm
among the Jews ,
| Grammar | Preposition-l, Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3064 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) Jew |
miš·teh
with feasting
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 4960 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) feast, drink, banquet
1a) feast, banquet
1b) drink |
wə·yō·wm
and celebrating
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 3117 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) day, time, year
1a) day (as opposed to night)
1b) day (24 hour period)
1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
1b2) as a division of time
1b2a) a working day, a day's journey
1c) days, lifetime (pl.)
1d) time, period (general)
1e) year
1f) temporal references
1f1) today
1f2) yesterday
1f3) tomorrow |
ṭō·wḇ
. . . .
| Grammar | Adjective - masculine singular |
| Strongs | 2896 |
| BSB/Thayers | adj
1) good, pleasant, agreeable
1a) pleasant, agreeable (to the senses)
1b) pleasant (to the higher nature)
1c) good, excellent (of its kind)
1d) good, rich, valuable in estimation
1e) good, appropriate, becoming
1f) better (comparative)
1g) glad, happy, prosperous (of man's sensuous nature)
1h) good understanding (of man's intellectual nature)
1i) good, kind, benign
1j) good, right (ethical)
n m
2) a good thing, benefit, welfare
2a) welfare, prosperity, happiness
2b) good things (collective)
2c) good, benefit
2d) moral good
n f
3) welfare, benefit, good things
3a) welfare, prosperity, happiness
3b) good things (collective)
3c) bounty |
wə·rab·bîm
And many
| Grammar | Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 7227 |
| BSB/Thayers | adj
1) much, many, great
1a) much
1b) many
1c) abounding in
1d) more numerous than
1e) abundant, enough
1f) great
1g) strong
1h) greater than
adv
1i) much, exceedingly
n m
2) captain, chief |
mê·‘am·mê
of the people
| Grammar | Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct |
| Strongs | 5971 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) nation, people
1a) people, nation
1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
2) kinsman, kindred |
hā·’ā·reṣ
of the land
| Grammar | Article | Noun - feminine singular |
| Strongs | 776 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) land, earth
1a) earth
1a1) whole earth (as opposed to a part)
1a2) earth (as opposed to heaven)
1a3) earth (inhabitants)
1b) land
1b1) country, territory
1b2) district, region
1b3) tribal territory
1b4) piece of ground
1b5) land of Canaan, Israel
1b6) inhabitants of land
1b7) Sheol, land without return, (under) world
1b8) city (-state)
1c) ground, surface of the earth
1c1) ground
1c2) soil
1d) (in phrases)
1d1) people of the land
1d2) space or distance of country (in measurements of distance)
1d3) level or plain country
1d4) land of the living
1d5) end(s) of the earth
1e) (almost wholly late in usage)
1e1) lands, countries
1e1a) often in contrast to Canaan |
miṯ·ya·hă·ḏîm
themselves became Jews ,
| Grammar | Verb - Hitpael - Participle - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3054 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) (Hithpael) to become a Jew (in fact or in fraud), become Judaised |
kî-
because
| Grammar | Conjunction |
| Strongs | 3588 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since
1a) that
1a1) yea, indeed
1b) when (of time)
1b1) when, if, though (with a concessive force)
1c) because, since (causal connection)
1d) but (after negative)
1e) that if, for if, indeed if, for though, but if
1f) but rather, but
1g) except that
1h) only, nevertheless
1i) surely
1j) that is
1k) but if
1l) for though
1m) forasmuch as, for therefore |
pa·ḥaḏ-
the fear
| Grammar | Noun - masculine singular construct |
| Strongs | 6343 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) terror, dread
1a) dread
1b) object of dread |
hay·yə·hū·ḏîm
of the Jews
| Grammar | Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural |
| Strongs | 3064 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) Jew |
nā·p̄al
had fallen
| Grammar | Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular |
| Strongs | 5307 |
| BSB/Thayers | 1) to fall, lie, be cast down, fail
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to fall
1a2) to fall (of violent death)
1a3) to fall prostrate, prostrate oneself before
1a4) to fall upon, attack, desert, fall away to, go away to, fall into the hand of
1a5) to fall short, fail, fall out, turn out, result
1a6) to settle, waste away, be offered, be inferior to
1a7) to lie, lie prostrate
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to cause to fall, fell, throw down, knock out, lay prostrate
1b2) to overthrow
1b3) to make the lot fall, assign by lot, apportion by lot
1b4) to let drop, cause to fail (fig.)
1b5) to cause to fall
1c) (Hithpael)
1c1) to throw or prostrate oneself, throw oneself upon
1c2) to lie prostrate, prostrate oneself
1d) (Pilel) to fall |
‘ă·lê·hem
upon them .
| Grammar | Preposition | third person masculine plural |
| Strongs | 5921 |
| BSB/Thayers | prep
1) upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against
1a) upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards
1b) above, beyond, over (of excess)
1c) above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence)
1d) upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition)
1e) over (of suspension or extension)
1f) by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity)
1g) down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion)
1h) to (as a dative)
conj
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