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Esther 4

Esther 4:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Forh if thou altogether
charash (Hebrew #2790)
to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness)
KJV usage: X altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.
Pronounce: khaw-rash'
Origin: a primitive root
holdest thy peace
charash (Hebrew #2790)
to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness)
KJV usage: X altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.
Pronounce: khaw-rash'
Origin: a primitive root
at this time
`eth (Hebrew #6256)
time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.
KJV usage: + after, (al-)ways, X certain, + continually, + evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-)tide, ((meal-)), what) time, when.
Pronounce: ayth
Origin: from 5703
, then shall there δenlargement
revach (Hebrew #7305)
room, literally (an interval) or figuratively (deliverance)
KJV usage: enlargement, space.
Pronounce: reh'-vakh
Origin: from 7304
and deliverance
hatstsalah (Hebrew #2020)
rescue
KJV usage: deliverance.
Pronounce: hats-tsaw-law'
Origin: from 5337
arise
`amad (Hebrew #5975)
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
KJV usage: abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, + serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-)stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.
Pronounce: aw-mad'
Origin: a primitive root
to the Jews
Yhuwdiy (Hebrew #3064)
a Jehudite (i.e. Judaite or Jew), or descendant of Jehudah (i.e. Judah)
KJV usage: Jew.
Pronounce: yeh-hoo-dee'
Origin: patronymically from 3063
from another
'acher (Hebrew #312)
properly, hinder; generally, next, other, etc.
KJV usage: (an-)other man, following, next, strange.
Pronounce: akh-air'
Origin: from 309
place
maqowm (Hebrew #4725)
also (feminine) mqowmah {mek-o-mah'}; or mqomah {mek-o-mah'}; from 6965; properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
KJV usage: country, X home, X open, place, room, space, X whither(-soever).
Pronounce: maw-kome'
Origin: or maqom {maw-kome'}
; but thou and thy father’s
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
shall be destroyed
'abad (Hebrew #6)
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
KJV usage: break, destroy(- uction), + not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, X and surely, take, be undone, X utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
: and who knoweth
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
whether thou art come
naga` (Hebrew #5060)
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphem., to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
KJV usage: beat, (X be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
Pronounce: naw-gah'
Origin: a primitive root
to the kingdom
malkuwth (Hebrew #4438)
or (in plural) malkuyah {mal-koo-yah'}; from 4427; a rule; concretely, a dominion
KJV usage: empire, kingdom, realm, reign, royal.
Pronounce: mal-kooth'
Origin: or malkuth {mal-kooth'}
for such a time
`eth (Hebrew #6256)
time, especially (adverb with preposition) now, when, etc.
KJV usage: + after, (al-)ways, X certain, + continually, + evening, long, (due) season, so (long) as, (even-, evening-, noon-)tide, ((meal-)), what) time, when.
Pronounce: ayth
Origin: from 5703
as this?
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Num. 23:23• 23For there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel. At this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath *God wrought! (Num. 23:23)
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1 Sam. 12:22• 22For Jehovah will not cast away his people for his great name's sake; because it has pleased Jehovah to make you his people. (1 Sam. 12:22)
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Isa. 54:17• 17No weapon that is prepared against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that riseth against thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah; and their righteousness is of me, saith Jehovah. (Isa. 54:17)
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respiration,
Job 9:18• 18He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses. (Job 9:18)
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then shall.
Gen. 22:14• 14And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh; as it is said at the present day, On the mount of Jehovah will be provided. (Gen. 22:14)
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Num. 23:22‑24• 22*God brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a buffalo.
 23For there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel. At this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath *God wrought!
 24Lo, the people will rise up as a lioness, and lift himself up as a lion. He shall not lie down until he have eaten the prey and drunk the blood of the slain. (Num. 23:22‑24)
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Deut. 32:26‑27,36• 26I would say, I will scatter, I will make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
 27If I did not fear provocation from the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand it, Lest they should say, Our hand is high, and Jehovah has not done all this.
 36For Jehovah will judge his people, And shall repent in favour of his servants; When he seeth that power is gone, And there is none shut up or left. (Deut. 32:26‑27,36)
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1 Sam. 12:22• 22For Jehovah will not cast away his people for his great name's sake; because it has pleased Jehovah to make you his people. (1 Sam. 12:22)
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Isa. 54:17• 17No weapon that is prepared against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that riseth against thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of Jehovah; and their righteousness is of me, saith Jehovah. (Isa. 54:17)
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Jer. 30:11• 11For I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to save thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee; yet of thee will I not make a full end, but I will correct thee with judgment, and will not hold thee altogether guiltless. (Jer. 30:11)
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Jer. 33:24‑26• 24Hast thou not seen what this people have spoken, saying, The two families that Jehovah had chosen, he hath even cast them off? And they despise my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
 25Thus saith Jehovah: If my covenant of day and night stand not, if I have not appointed the ordinances of the heavens and the earth,
 26then will I also cast away the seed of Jacob, and of David my servant, so as not to take of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will turn their captivity, and will have mercy on them. (Jer. 33:24‑26)
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Jer. 46:28• 28Fear thou not, my servant Jacob, saith Jehovah: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; but I will correct thee with judgment, and I will not hold thee altogether guiltless. (Jer. 46:28)
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Amos 9:8‑9• 8Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth: only that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.
 9For behold, I command, and I will shake the house of Israel to and fro among all the nations, like as one shaketh corn in a sieve; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. (Amos 9:8‑9)
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Matt. 16:18• 18And *I* also, I say unto thee that *thou* art Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and hades' gates shall not prevail against it. (Matt. 16:18)
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Matt. 24:22• 22and if those days had not been cut short, no flesh had been saved; but on account of the elect those days shall be cut short. (Matt. 24:22)
enlargement.
Heb. respiration.
Ezra 9:9• 9For we are bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us before the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God and to repair the ruins thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. (Ezra 9:9)
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Job 9:18• 18He suffereth me not to take my breath, for he filleth me with bitternesses. (Job 9:18)
but thou.
Esther 2:7,15• 7And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother--and the maiden was fair and beautiful--and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
 15And when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained grace in the sight of all them that saw her. (Esther 2:7,15)
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Judg. 14:15‑18• 15And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Persuade thy husband, that he may explain to us the riddle, lest we burn thee and thy father's house with fire. Have ye invited us to impoverish us,--is it not so?
 16And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, Thou dost but hate me, and lovest me not. Thou hast propounded the riddle to the children of my people, and hast not explained it to me. And he said to her, Behold, I have not explained it to my father nor my mother, and shall I explain it to thee?
 17And she wept before him the seven days, while they had the feast. And it came to pass on the seventh day, that he explained it to her, for she pressed him. And she explained the riddle to the children of her people.
 18And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey, And what stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If ye had not ploughed with my heifer, Ye had not found out my riddle. (Judg. 14:15‑18)
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Judg. 15:6• 6And the Philistines said, Who has done this? And they answered, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burned her and her father with fire. (Judg. 15:6)
whether.
Gen. 45:4‑8• 4And Joseph said to his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.
 5And now, be not grieved, and be not angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
 6For the famine has been these two years in the land; and yet there are five years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest.
 7So God sent me before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance.
 8And now it was not you that sent me here, but God; and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and governor over all the land of Egypt. (Gen. 45:4‑8)
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Isa. 45:1‑5• 1Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him--and I will loose the loins of kings; to open before him the two-leaved doors, and the gates shall not be shut:
 2I will go before thee, and make the elevated places plain; I will break in pieces the brazen doors, and cut asunder the bars of iron;
 3and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places; that thou mayest know that I, Jehovah, who call thee by name, am the God of Israel.
 4For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have called thee by thy name; I surnamed thee, though thou didst not know me;
 5I am Jehovah, and there is none else; there is no God beside me: I girded thee, and thou hast not known me; (Isa. 45:1‑5)
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Isa. 49:23• 23And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their princesses thy nursing-mothers: they shall bow down to thee with the face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet. And thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; for they shall not be ashamed who wait on me. (Isa. 49:23)
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Acts 7:20‑25• 20In which time Moses was born, and was exceedingly lovely, who was nourished three months in the house of his father.
 21And when he was cast out, the daughter of Pharaoh took him up, and brought him up for herself to be for a son.
 22And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
 23And when a period of forty years was fulfilled to him, it came into his heart to look upon his brethren, the sons of Israel;
 24and seeing a certain one wronged, he defended him, and avenged him that was being oppressed, smiting the Egyptian.
 25For he thought that his brethren would understand that God by his hand was giving them deliverance. But they understood not. (Acts 7:20‑25)
for such a time.
1 Sam. 17:29• 29And David said, What have I now done? Was it not laid upon me? (1 Sam. 17:29)
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2 Kings 19:3• 3And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of trouble and of rebuke and of reviling; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. (2 Kings 19:3)
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Neh. 6:11• 11And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, could go into the temple, and live? I will not go in. (Neh. 6:11)
The fact related in this verse was unquestionably the reason why Esther was raised to regal honours, by the overruling providence of God:
she was therefore bound in gratitude to do this service for God, else she would not have answered the end of her elevation:
and she need not fear the miscarriage of the enterprise, for if God designed her for it, he would surely bear her through and give success.
It appeared by the event that Mordecai spoke prophetically, when he modestly conjectured that Esther came to the kingdom that she might be the instrument of the Jews' deliverance.
Mordecai thoroughly believed that it was a cause which one way or other would certainly be carried, and which, therefore, she might safely venture upon.
Instruments might fail, but God's covenant cannot.
There is a wise design in all the providences of God, which is unknown to us till it is accomplished; but it will prove in the issue that all is intended for and centre in the good of those who trust in Him.
• But the salvation of the Jewish people was uppermost on his heart. He rises above natural affection and is ready to give up that which he loves, in order to serve God and His people. What an example for us! We can understand Esther's hesitation, but amidst the anguish and pain Mordecai endures while urging the queen, although uncertain about the outcome of the means he seeks to use, his faith and his confidence remain unshaken....God cannot abandon His people to the mercy of the wicked. (“Chapter 3: Mordecai and Esther” by H.L. Rossier)
• 2 Cor 4:8-9. May we be enabled, as Mordecai, while feeling the testing, and at the same time having a sense of the ruin which surrounds us, not to yield to discouragement, but count upon God and His faithfulness. (“Chapter 3: Mordecai and Esther” by H.L. Rossier)
• It is as if he said, "Take care that you do not give yourself over to the illusion of a false sense of security, for the stroke and the ruin will overtake you even in your elevated position. If you are not for God and His people, God will be against you." How this recalls the words of the Lord. Luke 9:24. (“Chapter 3: Mordecai and Esther” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there arise relief and deliverance to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall perish. And who knows whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?