Esther 4:5
King James Version
8 Jun 2026
“Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king’s chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.”
מָה
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
עָמַד
he had made stand
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עָמַד
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
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זֶה
was this
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זֶה
the masculine demonstrative pronoun, this or that
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מׇרְדְּכַי
Mordecai
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מׇרְדְּכַי
Mordecai, an Israelite
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