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Esther 8

Esther 8:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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On that day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
did 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)
give
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
the 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
of Haman
Haman (Hebrew #2001)
Haman, a Persian vizier
KJV usage: Haman.
Pronounce: haw-mawn'
Origin: of foreign derivation
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
enemy
tsarar (Hebrew #6887)
to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (as follows)
KJV usage: adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.
Pronounce: tsaw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
untoa Esther
'Ecter (Hebrew #635)
Ester, the Jewish heroine
KJV usage: Esther.
Pronounce: es-tare'
Origin: of Persian derivation
the queen
malkah (Hebrew #4436)
a queen
KJV usage: queen.
Pronounce: mal-kaw'
Origin: feminine of 4428
. And Mordecai
Mordkay (Hebrew #4782)
Mordecai, an Israelite
KJV usage: Mordecai.
Pronounce: mor-dek-ah'-ee
Origin: of foreign derivation
came
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
before
paniym (Hebrew #6440)
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
KJV usage: + accept, a-(be- )fore(-time), against, anger, X as (long as), at, + battle, + because (of), + beseech, countenance, edge, + employ, endure, + enquire, face, favour, fear of, for, forefront(-part), form(-er time, -ward), from, front, heaviness, X him(-self), + honourable, + impudent, + in, it, look(-eth) (- s), X me, + meet, X more than, mouth, of, off, (of) old (time), X on, open, + out of, over against, the partial, person, + please, presence, propect, was purposed, by reason of, + regard, right forth, + serve, X shewbread, sight, state, straight, + street, X thee, X them(-selves), through (+ - out), till, time(-s) past, (un-)to(-ward), + upon, upside (+ down), with(- in, + -stand), X ye, X you.
Pronounce: paw-neem'
Origin: plural (but always as singular) of an unused noun (paneh {paw-neh'}; from 6437)
the king
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
; for Esther
'Ecter (Hebrew #635)
Ester, the Jewish heroine
KJV usage: Esther.
Pronounce: es-tare'
Origin: of Persian derivation
had told
nagad (Hebrew #5046)
properly, to front, i.e. stand boldly out opposite; by implication (causatively), to manifest; figuratively, to announce (always by word of mouth to one present); specifically, to expose, predict, explain, praise
KJV usage: bewray, X certainly, certify, declare(-ing), denounce, expound, X fully, messenger, plainly, profess, rehearse, report, shew (forth), speak, X surely, tell, utter.
Pronounce: naw-gad'
Origin: a primitive root
what he wasb unto her.
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Prov. 13:22• 22A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous man. (Prov. 13:22)
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Esther 2:7• 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. (Esther 2:7)

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Ahasuerus,
Day,
Esther,
Haman,
House,
Jew,
King,
Mordecai,
Queen

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-2:  Mordecai is advanced.
3-6:  Esther makes suit to reverse Haman's letters.
7-14:  Ahasuerus grants to the Jews to defend themselves.
15-17:  Mordecai's honour, and the Jews' joy.
give the house.
Job 27:16‑17• 16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
 17He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on; and the innocent shall divide the silver. (Job 27:16‑17)
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Psa. 39:6• 6Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psa. 39:6)
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Psa. 49:6‑13• 6They depend upon their wealth, and boast themselves in the abundance of their riches. …
 7None can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him,
 8(For the redemption of their soul is costly, and must be given up for ever,)
 9That he should still live perpetually, and not see corruption.
 10For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others.
 11Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever, their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names.
 12Nevertheless, man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish.
 13This their way is their folly, yet they that come after them delight in their sayings. Selah. (Psa. 49:6‑13)
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Prov. 13:22• 22A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children; but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous man. (Prov. 13:22)
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Prov. 28:8• 8He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance gathereth it for him that is gracious to the poor. (Prov. 28:8)
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Eccl. 2:18‑19• 18And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
 19And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity. (Eccl. 2:18‑19)
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Luke 12:20• 20But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared? (Luke 12:20)
came before.
Esther 1:14• 14and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and who sat first in the kingdom), (Esther 1:14)
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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)
• {v.1-2} She pays her debt of gratitude to Mordecai by presenting him to the king and appointing him over the house of Haman which the king had given her. (“Chapter 3: Mordecai and Esther” by H.L. Rossier)
• Soon the day of Mordecai's final triumph arrives. The adversary having been destroyed, nothing hinders the one representing the remnant of the Jews, from being raised gloriously. (“Chapter 3: Mordecai and Esther” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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On that day did king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews’ oppressor to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.