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/ל (l) means “to/for” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

/ל Hebrew · H9005 20,810 tagged occurrences in 12,010 verses

Pronunciation guide: l STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.

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TBESH · H9005

/ל · l · to/for

Prefix lamed: to

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Verses containing H9005

Page 146 of 241. 12010 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. Esther 1:3 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces.

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  2. Esther 1:5 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.

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  3. Esther 1:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.

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  4. Esther 1:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

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  5. Esther 1:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas—

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  6. Esther 1:11 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.

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  7. Esther 1:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Queen Vashti, however, refused to come at the king’s command brought by his eunuchs. And the king became furious, and his anger burned within him.

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  8. Esther 1:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then the king consulted the wise men who knew the times, for it was customary for him to confer with the experts in law and justice.

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  9. Esther 1:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    “According to law,” he asked, “what should be done with Queen Vashti, since she refused to obey the command of King Xerxes delivered by the eunuchs?”

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  10. Esther 1:16 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes.

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  11. Esther 1:17 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    For the conduct of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to despise their husbands and say, ‘King Xerxes ordered Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she did not come.’

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  12. Esther 1:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard about the queen’s conduct will say the same thing to all the king’s officials, resulting in much contempt and wrath.

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  13. Esther 1:19 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    So if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and that her royal position shall be given to a woman better than she.

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  14. Esther 1:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, will honor their husbands.”

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  15. Esther 1:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He sent letters to all the provinces of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be master of his own household.

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  16. Esther 2:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the king’s attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king,

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  17. Esther 2:7 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter.

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  18. Esther 2:9 · BSB · 6 occurrences

    And the young woman pleased him and obtained his favor, so he quickly provided her with beauty treatments and the special diet. He assigned to her seven select maidservants from the palace and transferred her with them to the best place in the harem.

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  19. Esther 2:11 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Esther’s welfare and what was happening to her.

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  20. Esther 2:12 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.

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  21. Esther 2:13 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.

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  22. Esther 2:15 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.

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  23. Esther 2:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

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  24. Esther 2:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she found grace and favor in his sight more than all of the other virgins. So he placed the royal crown upon her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.

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  25. Esther 2:18 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Then the king held a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his officials and servants. He proclaimed a tax holiday in the provinces and gave gifts worthy of the king’s bounty.

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  26. Esther 2:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the entrance, grew angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.

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  27. Esther 2:22 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    When Mordecai learned of the plot, he reported it to Queen Esther, and she informed the king on Mordecai’s behalf.

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  28. Esther 2:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    After the report had been investigated and verified, both officials were hanged on the gallows. And all this was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.

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  29. Esther 3:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    All the royal servants at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded that this be done for him. But Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage.

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  30. Esther 3:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the royal servants at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”

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  31. Esther 3:4 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Day after day they warned him, but he would not comply. So they reported it to Haman to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, since he had told them he was a Jew.

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  32. Esther 3:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or pay him homage, he was filled with rage.

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  33. Esther 3:6 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.

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  34. Esther 3:7 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

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  35. Esther 3:8 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.

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  36. Esther 3:9 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”

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  37. Esther 3:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.

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  38. Esther 3:11 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    “Keep your money,” said the king to Haman. “These people are given to you to do with them as you please.”

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  39. Esther 3:13 · BSB · 5 occurrences

    And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

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  40. Esther 3:14 · BSB · 4 occurrences

    A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that they would be ready on that day.

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  41. Esther 3:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.

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  42. Esther 4:2 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.

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  43. Esther 4:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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  44. Esther 4:4 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    When Esther’s maidens and eunuchs came and told her about Mordecai, the queen was overcome with distress. She sent clothes for Mordecai to wear instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.

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  45. Esther 4:5 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs appointed to her, and she dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what was troubling him and why.

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  46. Esther 4:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the king’s gate,

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  47. Esther 4:7 · BSB · 3 occurrences

    and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.

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  48. Esther 4:8 · BSB · 11 occurrences

    Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.

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  49. Esther 4:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So Hathach went back and relayed Mordecai’s response to Esther.

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  50. Esther 4:10 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Esther spoke to Hathach and instructed him to tell Mordecai,

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