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Esther 10

Esther 10:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
Ahasuerus
'Achashverowsh (Hebrew #325)
of Persian origin; Achashverosh (i.e. Ahasuerus or Artaxerxes, but in this case Xerxes), the title (rather than name) of a Persian king
KJV usage: Ahasuerus.
Pronounce: akh-ash-vay-rosh'
Origin: or (shortened) pAchashrosh {akh- ash-rosh'} (Esth. 10:1)
laid
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
a tribute
mac (Hebrew #4522)
from 4549; properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor
KJV usage: discomfited, levy, task(-master), tribute(-tary).
Pronounce: mas
Origin: or mic {mees}
n upon the land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
, and upon theo isles
'iy (Hebrew #339)
properly, a habitable spot (as desirable); dry land, a coast, an island
KJV usage: country, isle, island.
Pronounce: ee
Origin: from 183
of the sea
yam (Hebrew #3220)
a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
KJV usage: sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
Pronounce: yawm
Origin: from an unused root meaning to roar
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Luke 2:1• 1But it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census should be made of all the habitable world. (Luke 2:1)
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Gen. 10:5• 5From these came the distribution of the isles of the nations, according to their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. (Gen. 10:5)
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Psa. 72:10• 10The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer tribute: (Psa. 72:10)
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Isa. 24:15• 15Therefore glorify Jehovah in the east, the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the west. (Isa. 24:15)

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Ahasuerus,
Islands; Isles,
King,
Sea,
Tribute

Cross References

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1-2:  Ahasuerus' greatness.
3:  Mordecai's advancement.
laid a tribute.
Esther 1:1• 1And it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (that is, the Ahasuerus that reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces), (Esther 1:1)
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Esther 8:9• 9Then were the king's scribes called at that time, in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors, and the princes of the provinces which are from India even to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people according to their language, and to the Jews according to their writing and according to their language. (Esther 8:9)
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Luke 2:1• 1But it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census should be made of all the habitable world. (Luke 2:1)
the isles.
Gen. 10:5• 5From these came the distribution of the isles of the nations, according to their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations. (Gen. 10:5)
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Psa. 72:10• 10The kings of Tarshish and of the isles shall render presents; the kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer tribute: (Psa. 72:10)
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Isa. 24:15• 15Therefore glorify Jehovah in the east, the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the west. (Isa. 24:15)
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Dan. 11:18• 18And he shall turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many; but a captain for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease: he shall turn it upon him, without reproach for himself. (Dan. 11:18)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land and the isles of the sea.