Study it in the app“If it seems good to the king, let a royal word go out from before him, and let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media, and let it not pass away: that Vashti is not to come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royalty to her companion who is better than she.”
Ifאִםit seems goodטוֹבtoעַלthe king,הַמֶּלֶךְlet a royalמַלְכוּתwordדְבַרgo outיֵצֵאfrom before him,מִלְּפָנָיוand let it be writtenוְיִכָּתֵבamong the lawsבְּדָתֵיof Persiaפָרַסand Media,וּמָדַיand let it notוְלֹאpass away:יַעֲבוֹרthatאֲשֶׁרVashtiוַשְׁתִּיis not toלֹאcomeתָבוֹאbeforeלִפְנֵיKing Ahasuerus;הַמֶּלֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁand let the kingוּ הַמֶּלֶךְgiveיִתֵּןher royaltyמַלְכוּתָהּto her companionלִרְעוּתָהּwho is betterהַטּוֹבָהthan she.מִמֶּנָּה
seem good
To seem good, to be pleasing or fitting.
Where else “tov” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsreign
A reign, or what belongs to a king: his rule and dignity.
Where else “malchut” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” appearsgo out
To go out of a place.
Where else “yetse” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “fanay” appearswrite
To put words in writing, in a book or tablet, so that they last.
Where else “yikatev” appearslaw, decree
Law, decree.
Where else “date” appearsPersia
See it on the mapWhere else “faras” appearsMadai
Madai, a son of Japheth; it is the Hebrew name of the Medes (Media).
Where else “maday” appearspass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “yaavor” appearsVashti
Vashti: the name of the queen, wife of King Ahasuerus, who refused to come before him and lost her place.
Where else “vashti” appearscome
To come, arrive: "days are coming".
Where else “tavo” appearsAhasuerus
Ahasuerus: the Hebrew name of a king of Persia. In Ezra 4:6 and in the book of Esther; Strong identifies him there with Xerxes.
Where else “achashverosh” appearsgive
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “yiten” appearsneighbor (woman)
Neighbor, companion (woman); "one another".
Where else “reuta” appearsbetter
Worth more or more profitable than something it is compared with.
Where else “tova” appears“And let it not pass away”: so that it cannot be changed; the laws of Persia and of Media were not annulled (8:8; Daniel 6:8).
Persia
Today: Iran
An empire stretching from what is now Iran to Egypt; its center was in present-day Iran.
Cyrus, king of Persia, let the Jews return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple (Ezra 1:1-3).
18And this day the ladies of Persia and Media who have heard the matter of the queen will say it to all the king’s officials; and there will be plenty of contempt and anger.
19 · This verse (above)
20And when the decree of the king that he makes is heard in all his kingdom, for it is great, all the women will give honor to their husbands, from the great to the small.”
