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Lexicon :: Strong's H4782 - mārdᵊḵay

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מָרְדְּכַי
Transliteration
mārdᵊḵay
Pronunciation
mor-dek-ah'-ee
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of foreign derivation
Strong’s Definitions

מׇרְדְּכַי Mordᵉkay, mor-dek-ah'-ee; of foreign derivation; Mordecai, an Israelite:—Mordecai.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x

The KJV translates Strong's H4782 in the following manner: Mordecai (60x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x
The KJV translates Strong's H4782 in the following manner: Mordecai (60x).

  1. 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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מׇרְדְּכַי Mordᵉkay, mor-dek-ah'-ee; of foreign derivation; Mordecai, an Israelite:—Mordecai.
STRONGS H4782: Abbreviations
† מָרְּדֳּכַי (van d. H. מָרְדְּכַי) proper name, masculine Mordecai (perhaps from n. div. Marduk (מְרֹרַךְ), ZimZAW xi.161 ff.; compare further Wild (citing Jensen)Comm. Est. 173 f.); — מ׳ Ezra 2:2; Esther 2:5 +; מָרְדֳּכָ֑י Esther 2:22 +; —
1. companion of Zerubbabel, according to Ezra 2:2 = Nehemiah 7:7. Greek Version of the LXX Μαραθχαιος, Μαρδοχαιος, etc:
2. cousin and adoptive father of Esther Esther 2:5, 7, 10 + 55 times Esther. Greek Version of the LXX Μαρδοχαιος.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006 by Biblesoft, Inc.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ezra

2:2; 2:2

Nehemiah

7:7

Esther

2:5; 2:5; 2:7; 2:10; 2:22

H4782

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4782 matches the Hebrew מָרְדְּכַי (mārdᵊḵay),
which occurs 60 times in 52 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Ezr 2:2–Est 9:31)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:2 - Those who came with Zerubbabel were Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar,[fn] Bigvai, Rehum,[fn] and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:7 - Those who came with Zerubbabel were Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth,[fn] Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:5 - In Shushan the citadel there was a certain Jew whose name was Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:7 - And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was lovely and beautiful. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:10 - Esther had not revealed her people or family, for Mordecai had charged her not to reveal it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:11 - And every day Mordecai paced in front of the court of the women’s quarters, to learn of Esther’s welfare and what was happening to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:15 - Now when the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his daughter, to go in to the king, she requested nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the custodian of the women, advised. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all who saw her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:19 - When virgins were gathered together a second time, Mordecai sat within the king’s gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:20 - Now Esther had not revealed her family and her people, just as Mordecai had charged her, for Esther obeyed the command of Mordecai as when she was brought up by him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:21 - In those days, while Mordecai sat within the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, doorkeepers, became furious and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:22 - So the matter became known to Mordecai, who told Queen Esther, and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:2 - And all the king’s servants who were within the king’s gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai would not bow or pay homage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:3 - Then the king’s servants who were within the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king’s command?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:4 - Now it happened, when they spoke to him daily and he would not listen to them, that they told it to Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s words would stand; for Mordecai had told them that he was a Jew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:5 - When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was filled with wrath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:6 - But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:1 - When Mordecai learned all that had happened, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. He cried out with a loud and bitter cry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:4 - So Esther’s maids and eunuchs came and told her, and the queen was deeply distressed. Then she sent garments to clothe Mordecai and take his sackcloth away from him, but he would not accept them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:5 - Then Esther called Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs whom he had appointed to attend her, and she gave him a command concerning Mordecai, to learn what and why this was.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:6 - So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square that was in front of the king’s gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries to destroy the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:9 - So Hathach returned and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:10 - Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a command for Mordecai:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:12 - So they told Mordecai Esther’s words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:13 - And Mordecai told them to answer Esther: “Do not think in your heart that you will escape in the king’s palace any more than all the other Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:15 - Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:17 - So Mordecai went his way and did according to all that Esther commanded him.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:9 - So Haman went out that day joyful and with a glad heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, and that he did not stand or tremble before him, he was filled with indignation against Mordecai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:13 - “Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go merrily with the king to the banquet.” And the thing pleased Haman; so he had the gallows made.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:2 - And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:3 - Then the king said, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” And the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

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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 suggest that the king hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:10 - Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry, take the robe and the horse, as you have suggested, and do so for Mordecai the Jew who sits within the king’s gate! Leave nothing undone of all that you have spoken.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:11 - So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:12 - Afterward Mordecai went back to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:13 - When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - Now Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, “Look! The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good on the king’s behalf, is standing at the house of Haman.” Then 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 wrath subsided.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:1 - On that day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told how he was related to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:2 - So the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai; and Esther appointed Mordecai over the house of Haman.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:9 - So the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day; and it was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the princes of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all, to every province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:15 - So Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, with a great crown of gold and a garment of fine linen and purple; and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:3 - And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and all those doing the king’s work, helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:4 - For Mordecai was great in the king’s palace, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces; for this man Mordecai became increasingly prominent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:20 - And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews, near and far, who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:23 - So the Jews accepted the custom which they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:29 - Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Purim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:31 - to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had prescribed for them, and as they had decreed for themselves and their descendants concerning matters of their fasting and lamenting.

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