perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed

1. (Qal)

   1. perish, die, be exterminated

   2. perish, vanish (fig.)

   3. be lost, strayed

2. (Piel)

   1. to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate

   2. to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.)

   3. cause to stray, lose

3. (Hiphil)

   1. to destroy, put to death

      1. of divine judgment

   2. object name of kings (fig.)

Agagite = "I will overtop"

1. said of Haman, Haman the Agagite

son, grandson, child, member of a group

1. son, male child

2. grandson

3. children (pl. - male and female)

4. youth, young men (pl.)

5. young (of animals)

6. sons (as characterisation, i.e. sons of injustice [for un- righteous men] or sons of God [for angels]

7. people (of a nation) (pl.)

8. of lifeless things, i.e. sparks, stars, arrows (fig.)

9. a member of a guild, order, class

lot

1. lot - pebbles used for systematically making decisions

portion

1. lot, portion (thing assigned by casting lots)

2. recompense, retribution

he, she, it

1. himself (with emphasis)

2. resuming subj with emphasis

3. (with minimum emphasis following predicate)

4. (anticipating subj)

5. (emphasising predicate)

6. that, it (neuter)

   demonstrative pronoun

that (with article)

to move noisily, confuse, make a noise, discomfit, break, consume, crush, destroy, trouble, vex

1. (Qal)

   1. to move noisily

   2. to confuse, discomfit, vex

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

to think, plan, esteem, calculate, invent, make a judgment, imagine, count

1. (Qal)

   1. to think, account

   2. to plan, devise, mean

   3. to charge, impute, reckon

   4. to esteem, value, regard

   5. to invent

2. (Niphal)

   1. to be accounted, be thought, be esteemed

   2. to be computed, be reckoned

   3. to be imputed

3. (Piel)

   1. to think upon, consider, be mindful of

   2. to think to do, devise, plan

   3. to count, reckon

4. (Hithpael) to be considered

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

Hammedatha = "double"

1. father of Haman

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

upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against

1. upon, on the ground of, on the basis of, on account of, because of, therefore, on behalf of, for the sake of, for, with, in spite of, notwithstanding, concerning, in the matter of, as regards

2. above, beyond, over (of excess)

3. above, over (of elevation or pre-eminence)

4. upon, to, over to, unto, in addition to, together with, with (of addition)

5. over (of suspension or extension)

6. by, adjoining, next, at, over, around (of contiguity or proximity)

7. down upon, upon, on, from, up upon, up to,, towards, over towards, to, against (with verbs of motion)

8. to (as a dative)

   conjunction

because that, because, notwithstanding, although

Pur or Purim = "lot" or "piece"

1. lot

   1. a special feast among the post-exilic Jews, to celebrate their deliverance from Haman's destruction through queen Esther's heroic actions

to bind, be narrow, be in distress, make narrow, cause distress, besiege, be straitened, be bound

1. (Qal)

   1. to bind, tie up, shut up

   2. to be scant, be cramped, be in straits

2. (Pual) to be bound, be tied up

3. (Hiphil)

   1. to make narrow for, cause distress to, press hard upon

   2. to suffer distress

to show hostility toward, vex

1. (Qal)

   1. to show hostility toward, treat with enmity, vex, harass

   2. vexer, harasser (participle)