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Lexicon :: Strong's H2001 - hāmān

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הָמָן
Transliteration
hāmān
Pronunciation
haw-mawn'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of foreign derivation
Strong’s Definitions

הָמָן Hâmân, haw-mawn'; of foreign derivation; Haman, a Persian vizier:—Haman.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x

The KJV translates Strong's H2001 in the following manner: Haman (53x), he (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 54x
The KJV translates Strong's H2001 in the following manner: Haman (53x), he (1x).

  1. 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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
הָמָן Hâmân, haw-mawn'; of foreign derivation; Haman, a Persian vizier:—Haman.
STRONGS H2001: Abbreviations
† הָמָן proper name, masculine Haman, favourite of Ahasuerus (etymology dubious; according to JenVOJ 1892, 58 ff. = Elamite proper name, of divinity Humban, or Humman) — Esther 3:1 + 53 times in Esther.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Esther

3:1

H2001

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2001 matches the Hebrew הָמָן (hāmān),
which occurs 54 times in 45 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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After these things King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the [fn]Agagite, and advanced him and [fn]established his authority over all the officials who were with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:2 - All the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate [in royal service] bowed down and honored and paid homage to Haman; for this is what the king had commanded in regard to him. But Mordecai [a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin] neither bowed down nor paid homage [to him].

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:4 - Now it happened when they had spoken to him day after day and he would not listen to them, that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai’s reason [for his behavior] would stand [as valid]; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:5 - When Haman saw that Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage to him, he was furious.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:6 - But he disdained laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were (his nationality); so Haman determined to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who lived throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

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In the first month, the month of Nisan (Mar-Apr), in the [fn]twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, Haman cast Pur, that is, the lot, cast before him day after day [to find a lucky day to approach the king], month after month, until the twelfth month, the month of Adar (Feb-Mar).

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:8 - Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered [abroad] and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people, and they do not observe the king’s laws. Therefore it is not in the king’s interest to [tolerate them and] let them stay here.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:10 - Then the king removed his signet ring from his hand [that is, the special ring which was used to seal his letters] and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:11 - The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, and the people also, to do with them as you please.”

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Then the king’s scribes (secretaries) were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written just as Haman commanded to the king’s satraps (chief rulers), and to the governors who were over each province and to the officials of each people, each province according to its script (writing), each people according to their own language; being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:15 - The couriers went out hurriedly by order of the king, and the decree was issued at the citadel in Susa. And while the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was perplexed [by the unusual and alarming decree].

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, and the exact [fn]amount of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:4 - Esther said, “If it pleases the king, may the king and Haman come this day to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”

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Then the king said, “Bring Haman quickly so that we may do as Esther says.” So the king and Haman came to the banquet which Esther had prepared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:8 - if I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to do as I request, may the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them; and tomorrow I will do as the king says [and express my request].”

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Haman went away that day joyful and in good spirits. But when he saw Mordecai at the king’s gate refusing to stand up or show fear before him, he was filled with rage toward Mordecai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:10 - Nevertheless, Haman controlled himself and went home. There he sent for his friends and his wife Zeresh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:11 - Then Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the large number of his sons, and every instance in which the king had magnified him and how he had promoted him over the officials and servants of the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:12 - Haman also said, “Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the banquet she had prepared; and tomorrow also I am invited by her [together] with the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows [fn]fifty cubits high made, and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go joyfully to the banquet with the king.” And the advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:4 - So the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace to ask the king about [fn]hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:5 - The king’s servants said to him, “Look, Haman is standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:6 - So Haman came in and the king said to him, “What is to be done for the man whom the king desires to honor?” Now Haman thought [fn]to himself, “Whom would the king desire to honor more than me?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:7 - So Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king desires to honor,

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Then the king said to Haman, “Quickly take the royal robe and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Leave out nothing of all that you have said.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:11 - So Haman took the royal robe and the horse and dressed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the open square of the city, proclaiming before him, “This is what shall be done for the man whom the king desires to honor.”

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Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his [own] house, mourning and with his head covered [in sorrow].

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:13 - Then Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise counselors and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall in status, is of Jewish heritage, you will not overcome him, but will certainly fall before him.”

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While they were still speaking with him, the king’s eunuchs (attendants) arrived and hurriedly brought Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.

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So the king and Haman came to drink wine with Esther the queen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:6 - Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy is Haman, this evil man.” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:7 - Then in his fury, the king stood up from drinking wine and went into the palace garden [to decide what he should do]; but Haman stayed to plead for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm had been determined against him by the king.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:8 - When the king returned from the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even attempt to assault the queen with me in the palace?” As the king spoke those words, the servants covered Haman’s face [in preparation for execution].

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs serving the king said, “Now look, there are gallows fifty cubits (75 ft.) high standing at Haman’s house, which Haman made for Mordecai, whose good warning saved the king.” And the king said, “Hang him on it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:10 - So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger subsided.

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On that day King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) gave the [fn]house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, to Queen Esther; and Mordecai came before the king, because Esther had disclosed what [[fn]relation] he was to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:2 - The king took off his signet ring which he had taken away from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther put Mordecai in charge of the house of Haman.

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Then Esther spoke again to the king and fell down at his feet and wept and implored him to avert the evil plot of Haman the Agagite and his plan which he had devised against the Jews [because the decree to annihilate the Jews was still in effect].

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:5 - Then she said, “If it pleases the king and if I have found favor before him and the matter is proper in the king’s view and I am pleasing in his sight, let it be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, which he wrote [in order] to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:7 - Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he stretched out his hand against the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:10 - the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy; but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:12 - The king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman at the citadel in Susa. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted to you. What is your further request? It shall also be done.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:13 - Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to act tomorrow also in accordance with the decree of today; and let [the dead bodies of] Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:14 - So the king commanded it to be done; the decree was given in Susa, and they hanged [the bodies of] Haman’s ten sons.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:24 - For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, [to find the right time] to disturb and destroy them.
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