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Esther 8

Esther 8:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For how
'eyk (Hebrew #349)
and teykakah {ay-kaw'-kah}; prolonged from 335; how? or how!; also where
KJV usage: how, what.
Pronounce: ake
Origin: also eykah {ay-kaw'}
l can I ηendure
yakol (Hebrew #3201)
a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
KJV usage: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
Pronounce: yaw-kole'
Origin: or (fuller) yakowl {yaw-kole'}
to see
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
the evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
that shall come
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
unto my people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
? or how
'eyk (Hebrew #349)
and teykakah {ay-kaw'-kah}; prolonged from 335; how? or how!; also where
KJV usage: how, what.
Pronounce: ake
Origin: also eykah {ay-kaw'}
can I endure
yakol (Hebrew #3201)
a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
KJV usage: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
Pronounce: yaw-kole'
Origin: or (fuller) yakowl {yaw-kole'}
to see
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
the destruction
'obdan (Hebrew #13)
a perishing
KJV usage: destruction.
Pronounce: ob-dawn'
Origin: from 6
of my kindred
mowledeth (Hebrew #4138)
nativity (plural birth-place); by implication, lineage, native country; also offspring, family
KJV usage: begotten, born, issue, kindred, native(-ity).
Pronounce: mo-leh'-deth
Origin: from 3205
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Esther 7:4• 4for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the adversary could not compensate the king's damage. (Esther 7:4)
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Neh. 2:3• 3And I said to the king, Let the king live for ever! Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates are consumed with fire? (Neh. 2:3)
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be able that I may see.

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Ministry on This Verse

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For how.
Gen. 44:34• 34for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me?--lest I see the evil that would come on my father. (Gen. 44:34)
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Jer. 4:19• 19My bowels! my bowels! I am in travail! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace: for thou hearest, my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the clamour of war. (Jer. 4:19)
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Jer. 9:1• 1Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! (Jer. 9:1)
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Luke 19:41‑42• 41And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it,
 42saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, even at least in this thy day, the things that are for thy peace: but now they are hid from thine eyes; (Luke 19:41‑42)
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Rom. 9:2‑3• 2that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,
 3for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh; (Rom. 9:2‑3)
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Rom. 10:1• 1Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which I address to God for them is for salvation. (Rom. 10:1)
endure to see.
Heb. be able that I may see.
the evil.
Esther 7:4• 4for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the adversary could not compensate the king's damage. (Esther 7:4)
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Neh. 2:3• 3And I said to the king, Let the king live for ever! Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates are consumed with fire? (Neh. 2:3)
• How could she live seeing her kindred are condemned to perish. Her portion was to live and to die with them. Then we see her humble submission, recognizing that all depended on the king's good pleasure. And finally she reckoned on the favor the king had accorded her, and on his love for her. (“Chapter 3: Mordecai and Esther” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For how shall I endure to see the evil that shall befall my people? and how shall I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?