BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5
a.vag.ta — Abagtha
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Est.1.10 § Abagtha = "God-given" one of the seven eunuchs in the Persian court of Ahasuerus
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →One of the seven eunuchs in Ahasuerus’s court (Esther 1:10; 2:21).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
