Ahasuerus = "I will be silent and poor"

1. title of the king of Persia, probably Xerxes

(relative part.)

1. which, who

2. that which

(conj)

1. that (in obj clause)

2. when

3. since

4. as

5. conditional if

sign of the definite direct object, not translated in English but generally preceding and indicating the accusative

alone, by itself, besides, a part, separation, being alone

1. separation, alone, by itself

   1. only (adv)

   2. apart from, besides (prep)

2. part

3. parts (eg limbs, shoots), bars

to despise, hold in contempt, disdain

1. (Qal) to despise, regard with contempt

2. (Niphal)

   1. to be despised

   2. to be despicable

   3. to be vile, worthless

3. (Hiphil) to cause to despise

to seek, require, desire, exact, request

1. (Piel)

   1. to seek to find

   2. to seek to secure

   3. to seek the face

   4. to desire, demand

   5. to require, exact

   6. to ask, request

2. (Pual) to be sought

Haman = "magnificent"

1. chief minister of Ahasuerus, enemy of Mordecai and the Jews, who plotted to kill the Jews but, being foiled by Esther, was hanged, with his family, on the gallows he had made for Mordecai

hand

1. hand (of man)

2. strength, power (fig.)

3. side (of land), part, portion (metaph.) (fig.)

4. (various special, technical senses)

   1. sign, monument

   2. part, fractional part, share

   3. time, repetition

   4. axle-trees, axle

   5. stays, support (for laver)

   6. tenons (in tabernacle)

   7. a phallus, a hand (meaning unsure)

   8. wrists

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

royalty, royal power, reign, kingdom, sovereign power

1. royal power, dominion

2. reign

3. kingdom, realm

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

to be conspicuous, tell, make known

1. (Hiphil) to tell, declare

   1. to tell, announce, report

   2. to declare, make known, expound

   3. to inform of

   4. to publish, declare, proclaim

   5. to avow, acknowledge, confess

      1. messenger (participle)

2. (Hophal) to be told, be announced, be reported

eye

1. eye

   1. of physical eye

   2. as showing mental qualities

   3. of mental and spiritual faculties (fig.)

spring, fountain

nation, people

1. people, nation

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

kinsman, kindred

to send, send away, let go, stretch out

1. (Qal)

   1. to send

   2. to stretch out, extend, direct

   3. to send away

   4. to let loose

2. (Niphal) to be sent

3. (Piel)

   1. to send off or away or out or forth, dismiss, give over, cast out

   2. to let go, set free

   3. to shoot forth (of branches)

   4. to let down

   5. to shoot

4. (Pual) to be sent off, be put away, be divorced, be impelled

5. (Hiphil) to send

to destroy, exterminate, be destroyed, be exterminated

1. (Niphal)

   1. to be annihilated, be exterminated

   2. to be destroyed, be devastated

2. (Hiphil)

   1. to annihilate, exterminate

   2. to destroy