A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.2 § Mordecai = "little man" or "worshipper of Mars" 1) cousin and adoptive father of queen Esther; son of Jair of the tribe of Benjamin; deliverer under Divine providence of the children of Israel from the destruction plotted by Haman the chief minister of Ahasuerus; institutor of the feast of Purim 2) a Jew who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
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H4782 — מׇרְדֳּכַי
mor.de.khay · Mordecai · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Ezra 2:2 · מָרְדֳּכַ֥יwho came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:Nehemiah 7:7 · מָרְדֳּכַ֥יwho came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:Esther 2:5 · מָרְדֳּכַ֗יThere was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,Esther 2:7 · מָרְדֳּכַ֛יHe brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.Esther 2:10 · מָרְדֳּכַ֛יEsther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.Esther 2:11 · מָרְדֳּכַי֙Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.Esther 2:15 · מָרְדֳּכַ֡יNow 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 eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.Esther 2:19 · וּמָרְדֳּכַ֖יWhen the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.Esther 2:20 · מָרְדֳּכָ֑י · מָרְדֳּכַי֙Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him.Esther 2:21 · וּמָרְדֳּכַ֖יIn those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.Esther 2:22 · לְמָרְדֳּכַ֔י · מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.Esther 3:2 · וּמָ֨רְדֳּכַ֔יAll the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.Esther 3:3 · לְמָרְדֳּכָ֑יThen the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”Esther 3:4 · מָרְדֳּכַ֔יNow it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.Esther 3:5 · מָרְדֳּכַ֔יWhen Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.Esther 3:6 · בְּמָרְדֳּכַ֣י · מָרְדֳּכָ֑י · מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.Esther 4:1 · וּמָרְדֳּכַ֗י · מָרְדֳּכַי֙Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly.Esther 4:4 · מָרְדֳּכַ֗יEsther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.Esther 4:5 · מָרְדֳּכָ֑יThen Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.Esther 4:6 · מָרְדֳּכָ֑יSo Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king’s gate.Esther 4:7 · מָרְדֳּכַ֔יMordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.Esther 4:9 · מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.Esther 4:10 · מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:Esther 4:12 · לְמָרְדֳּכָ֔יThey told to Mordecai Esther’s words.Esther 4:13 · מָרְדֳּכַ֖יThen Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.Esther 4:15 · מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,Esther 4:17 · מָרְדֳּכָ֑יSo Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.Esther 5:9 · מָרְדֳּכַ֜י · מָרְדֳּכַ֖יThen Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.Esther 5:13 · מָרְדֳּכַ֣יYet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”Esther 5:14 · מָרְדֳּכַי֙Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.Esther 6:2 · מָרְדֳּכַ֜יIt was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.Esther 6:3 · לְמָרְדֳּכַ֖יThe king said, “What honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”Esther 6:4 · מָרְדֳּכַ֔יThe king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.Esther 6:10 · לְמָרְדֳּכַ֣יThen the king said to Haman, “Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.”Esther 6:11 · מָרְדֳּכָ֑יThen Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”Esther 6:12 · מָרְדֳּכַ֖יMordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.Esther 6:13 · מָרְדֳּכַ֞יHaman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”Esther 7:9 · לְֽמָרְדֳּכַ֞יThen Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”Esther 7:10 · לְמָרְדֳּכָ֑יSo they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.Esther 8:1 · וּמָרְדֳּכַ֗יOn that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.Esther 8:2 · לְמָרְדֳּכָ֑י · מָרְדֳּכַ֖יThe king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.Esther 8:7 · וּֽלְמָרְדֳּכַ֖יThen King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.Esther 8:9 · מָרְדֳּכַ֣יThen the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.Esther 8:15 · וּמָרְדֳּכַ֞יMordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.Esther 9:3 · מָרְדֳּכַ֖יAll the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.Esther 9:4 · מָרְדֳּכַי֙ · מָרְדֳּכַ֖יFor Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.Esther 9:20 · מָרְדֳּכַ֔יMordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,Esther 9:23 · מָרְדֳּכַ֖יThe Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;Esther 9:29 · וּמָרְדֳּכַ֥יThen Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.Esther 9:31 · מָרְדֳּכַ֤יto confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.Esther 10:2 · מָרְדֳּכַ֔יAll the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?Esther 10:3 · מָרְדֳּכַ֣יFor Mordecai the Jew was next to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted by the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his descendants.