Study it in the app“In the evening she would go in, and in the morning she would return to the second house of the women, under the hand of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the concubines; she would not go in again to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was called by name.”
In the eveningבָּעֶרֶבsheהִיאwould go in,בָאָהand in the morningוּבַבֹּקֶרsheהִיאwould returnשָׁבָהtoאֶלthe secondשֵׁנִיhouseבֵּיתof the women,הַנָּשִׁיםunderאֶלthe handיַדof Shaashgaz,שַׁעֲשְׁגַזthe king’sהַמֶּלֶךְeunuch,סְרִיסkeeperשֹׁמֵרof the concubines;הַפִּילַגְשִׁיםshe would notלֹאgo inתָבוֹאagainעוֹדtoאֶלthe kingהַמֶּלֶךְunlessכִּי אִםthe kingהַמֶּלֶךְdelightedחָפֵץin herבָּהּand she was calledוְנִקְרְאָהby name.בְשֵׁם
evening
Evening, when the sun goes down. Each day of Genesis 1 is counted "evening and morning"; so in Israel the day begins at sunset.
Where else “erev” appearsenter
To go into a place.
Where else “vaa” appearsmorning
Morning, dawn.
Where else “boker” appearsreturn
To go back to a place.
Where else “shava” appearssecond
The one that comes after the first; the other of two.
Where else “sheni” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bet” appearswoman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “nashim” appearsthrough
Literally "by the hand of": that person is the one who does it or carries it.
Where else “yad” appearsShaashgaz
Shaashgaz: the name of the king's eunuch who kept the concubines.
Where else “shaashgaz” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsofficial, eunuch
Court official. The word can also mean eunuch.
Where else “seris” appearsguard
To watch over, protect from all harm.
Where else “shomer” appearsconcubine
Concubine: a woman joined to a man in a recognized way, but with fewer rights than the main wife. It was a custom of the time that the Bible tells without making it a model.
Where else “pilagshim” appearsdelight in
To take pleasure in someone or something and look on it with favor.
Where else “chafets” appearsname
To give someone a name.
Where else “nikra” appearsname
The word by which a person, place or thing is called and recognized.
Where else “shem” appears13so the young woman would go in to the king: everything that she asked for was given to her to take with her from the house of the women to the king’s house.
14 · This verse (above)
15And when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, came to go in to the king, she did not seek anything except what Hegai, the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women, said. And Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her.
