to love

1. (Qal)

   1. human love for another, includes family, and sexual

   2. human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom

   3. human love for or to God

   4. act of being a friend

      1. lover (participle)

      2. friend (participle)

   5. God's love toward man

      1. to individual men

      2. to people Israel

      3. to righteousness

2. (Niphal)

   1. lovely (participle)

   2. loveable (participle)

3. (Piel)

   1. friends

   2. lovers (fig. of adulterers)

to like

if

1. conditional clauses

   1. of possible situations

   2. of impossible situations

2. oath contexts

   1. no, not

3. if...if, whether...or, whether...or...or

4. when, whenever

5. since

6. interrogative particle

7. but rather

to say, speak, utter

1. (Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one's heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend

2. (Niphal) to be told, to be said, to be called

3. (Hithpael) to boast, to act proudly

4. (Hiphil) to avow, to avouch

woman, wife, female

1. woman (opposite of man)

2. wife (woman married to a man)

3. female (of animals)

4. each, every (pronoun)

(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

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

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)

Zeresh = "gold"

1. the wife of Haman, the Agagite

wise, wise (man)

1. skilful (in technical work)

2. wise (in administration)

3. shrewd, crafty, cunning, wily, subtle

4. learned, shrewd (class of men)

5. prudent

6. wise (ethically and religiously)

to profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, begin

1. (Niphal)

   1. to profane oneself, defile oneself, pollute oneself

      1. ritually

      2. sexually

   2. to be polluted, be defiled

2. (Piel)

   1. to profane, make common, defile, pollute

   2. to violate the honour of, dishonour

   3. to violate (a covenant)

   4. to treat as common

3. (Pual) to profane (name of God)

4. (Hiphil)

   1. to let be profaned

   2. to begin

5. (Hophal) to be begun

to wound (fatally), bore through, pierce, bore

1. (Qal) to pierce

2. (Pual) to be slain

3. (Poel) to wound, pierce

4. (Poal) to be wounded

(Piel) to play the flute or pipe

Jew

to prevail, overcome, endure, have power, be able

1. (Qal)

   1. to be able, be able to gain or accomplish, be able to endure, be able to reach

   2. to prevail, prevail over or against, overcome, be victor

   3. to have ability, have strength

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

not, no

1. not (with verb - absolute prohibition)

2. not (with modifier - negation)

3. nothing (subst)

4. without (with particle)

5. before (of time)

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 fall, lie, be cast down, fail

1. (Qal)

   1. to fall

   2. to fall (of violent death)

   3. to fall prostrate, prostrate oneself before

   4. to fall upon, attack, desert, fall away to , go away to, fall into the hand of

   5. to fall short, fail, fall out, turn out, result

   6. to settle, waste away, be offered, be inferior to

   7. to lie, lie prostrate

2. (Hiphil)

   1. to cause to fall, fell, throw down, knock out, lay prostrate

   2. to overthrow

   3. to make the lot fall, assign by lot, apportion by lot

   4. to let drop, cause to fail (fig.)

   5. to cause to fall

3. (Hithpael)

   1. to throw or prostrate oneself, throw oneself upon

   2. to lie prostrate, prostrate oneself

4. (Pilel) to fall

to count, recount, relate

1. (Qal)

   1. to count (things)

   2. to number, take account of, reckon

2. (Niphal) to be counted, be numbered

3. (Piel) to recount, rehearse, declare

   1. to recount (something), rehearse

   2. to talk

   3. to count exactly or accurately

4. (Pual) to be recounted, be rehearsed, be related

   masculine noun

enumerator, muster-officer, secretary, scribe

1. enumerator, muster-officer, secretary

2. learned man, scribe

face

1. face, faces

2. presence, person

3. face (of seraphim or cherubim)

4. face (of animals)

5. face, surface (of ground)

6. as adv of loc/temp

   1. before and behind, toward, in front of, forward, formerly, from beforetime, before

7. with prep

   1. in front of, before, to the front of, in the presence of, in the face of, at the face or front of, from the presence of, from before, from before the face of

to encounter, meet, befall, happen, come to meet

1. (Qal)

   1. to encounter, meet

   2. to befall

2. (Niphal)

   1. to encounter, meet (without pre-arrangement)

   2. to chance to be present

   3. to come to meet

3. (Hiphil) to cause to meet, appoint

to build with beams

1. (Piel) to lay the beams of, furnish with beams