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Lexicon :: Strong's H1912 - hōdû

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הֹדּוּ
Transliteration
hōdû
Pronunciation
ho'-doo
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Part of Speech
proper locative noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of foreign origin
Strong’s Definitions

הֹדוּ Hôdûw, ho'-doo; of foreign origin; Hodu (i.e. Hindustan):—India.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x

The KJV translates Strong's H1912 in the following manner: India (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2x
The KJV translates Strong's H1912 in the following manner: India (2x).

  1. India = "flee away" or " give ye thanks"

    1. the country surrounding the Indus, mentioned as the eastern border of the empire of Ahasuerus

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
הֹדוּ Hôdûw, ho'-doo; of foreign origin; Hodu (i.e. Hindustan):—India.
STRONGS H1912: Abbreviations
† הֹ֫דּוּ proper name, of a location India (Old Persian Hiñd’u SpiegAltpers. Keilinschr. 246 Sanskrit Sindhu, sea, great river, see references in RöThes Add 83, YuleAnglo-Indian Glossary, 329 ff.; compare in Arabic bdb021303, Aramaic bdb021304, etc.) only מֵהֹ֫דּוּ וְעַדכּֿוּשׁ (הַמֹּלֵךְ) Esther 1:1; Esther 8:9 (Greek Version of the LXX in both ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰνδικῆς).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Esther

1:1; 8:9

H1912

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Strong's Number H1912 matches the Hebrew הֹדּוּ (hōdû),
which occurs 2 times in 2 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:1 - This is what happened during the time of Xerxes,[fn] the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush[fn]:

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:9 - At once the royal secretaries were summoned—on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan. They wrote out all Mordecai’s orders to the Jews, and to the satraps, governors and nobles of the 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush.[fn] These orders were written in the script of each province and the language of each people and also to the Jews in their own script and language.
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