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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TBESH · H4782H
מׇרְדֳּכַי
· mor.de.khay · Mordecai
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Est.2.5;
son of: Jair (H2971J)
§ 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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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
of foreign derivation; Mordecai, an Israelite
KJV glosses: Mordecai.
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How translators render H4782
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mordecai
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and mordecai
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for mordecai
3
he
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mordecais
3
of mordecais
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3
on mordecai
2
when mordecai
2
along with mordecai
1
but mordecai
1
from whom mordecai
1
of mordecai
1
on mordecais behalf
1
so mordecai
1
tell mordecai
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then mordecai
1
to have mordecai
1
whether mordecais
1
while mordecai
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mordecai
12
and mordecai
7
of mordecai
7
for mordecai
5
to mordecai
5
that mordecai
3
then mordecai
2
unto mordecai
2
according as mordecai
1
according to all that mordecai
1
against mordecai
1
and as mordecai
1
and to mordecai
1
as mordecai
1
concerning him but mordecai
1
even so to mordecai
1
in mordecais
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it unto mordecai
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on mordecai
1
so mordecai
1
unto him if mordecai
1
when mordecai
1
whether mordecais
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while mordecai
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whom mordecai
1
Verses containing H4782
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And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?
For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
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