brother

1. brother of same parents

2. half-brother (same father)

3. relative, kinship, same tribe

4. each to the other (reciprocal relationship)

5. (fig.) of resemblance

Ahasuerus = "I will be silent and poor"

1. title of the king of Persia, probably Xerxes

great

1. large (in magnitude and extent)

2. in number

3. in intensity

4. loud (in sound)

5. older (in age)

6. in importance

   1. important things

   2. great, distinguished (of men)

   3. God Himself (of God)

      substantive

7. great things

8. haughty things

9. greatness

   proper masculine noun

to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing

1. (Qal) to speak

2. (Niphal) to speak with one another, talk

3. (Piel)

   1. to speak

   2. to promise

4. (Pual) to be spoken

5. (Hithpael) to speak

6. (Hiphil) to lead away, put to flight

to resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require

1. (Qal)

   1. to resort to, frequent (a place), (tread a place)

   2. to consult, enquire of, seek

      1. of God

      2. of heathen gods, necromancers

   3. to seek deity in prayer and worship

      1. God

      2. heathen deities

   4. to seek (with a demand), demand, require

   5. to investigate, enquire

   6. to ask for, require, demand

   7. to practice, study, follow, seek with application

   8. to seek with care, care for

2. (Niphal)

   1. to allow oneself to be enquired of, consulted (only of God)

   2. to be sought, be sought out

   3. to be required (of blood)

seed, sowing, offspring

1. a sowing

2. seed

3. semen virile

4. offspring, descendants, posterity, children

5. of moral quality

   1. a practitioner of righteousness (fig.)

6. sowing time (by meton)

good, pleasant, agreeable

1. pleasant, agreeable (to the senses)

2. pleasant (to the higher nature)

3. good, excellent (of its kind)

4. good, rich, valuable in estimation

5. good, appropriate, becoming

6. better (comparative)

7. glad, happy, prosperous (of man's sensuous nature)

8. good understanding (of man's intellectual nature)

9. good, kind, benign

10. good, right (ethical)

    masculine noun

a good thing, benefit, welfare

1. welfare, prosperity, happiness

2. good things (collective)

3. good, benefit

4. moral good

   feminine noun

welfare, benefit, good things

1. welfare, prosperity, happiness

2. good things (collective)

3. bounty

Jew

that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since

1. that

   1. yea, indeed

2. when (of time)

   1. when, if, though (with a concessive force)

3. because, since (causal connection)

4. but (after negative)

5. that if, for if, indeed if, for though, but if

6. but rather, but

7. except that

8. only, nevertheless

9. surely

10. that is

11. but if

12. for though

13. forasmuch as, for therefore

all, the whole

1. all, the whole of

2. any, each, every, anything

3. totality, everything

king

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

double, copy, second, repetition

1. double

2. copy (of law)

3. second (in order)

   1. second rank

   2. second in age

4. second quarter or district

nation, people

1. people, nation

2. persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men

kinsman, kindred

multitude, abundance, greatness

1. multitude

   1. abundance, abundantly

   2. numerous

2. greatness

to be pleased with, be favourable to, accept favourably

1. (Qal)

   1. to be pleased with, be favourable to

   2. to accept

   3. to be pleased, be determined

   4. to make acceptable, satisfy

   5. to please

2. (Niphal) to be accepted, be pleased with

3. (Piel) to seek favour of

4. (Hiphil) to please, pay off

5. (Hithpael) to make oneself acceptable or pleasing

completeness, soundness, welfare, peace

1. completeness (in number)

2. safety, soundness (in body)

3. welfare, health, prosperity

4. peace, quiet, tranquillity, contentment

5. peace, friendship

   1. of human relationships

   2. with God especially in covenant relationship

6. peace (from war)

7. peace (as adjective)