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And the kingוַ הַמֶּלֶךְsaidיֹּאמֶרto Haman,לְהָמָן“The silverהַכֶּסֶףis givenנָתוּןto you,לָךְand the people,וְהָעָםto doלַעֲשׂוֹתwith itבּוֹasכַּseems goodטּוֹבin your eyes.”בְּעֵינֶיךָ
Esther 3:11
Study it in the app“And the king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, and the people, to do with it as seems good in your eyes.””
With the Hebrew beneath
Esther 3:11, word by word
- And the kingמֶּלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appears- to Hamanהָמָןhaman
Haman
Haman: the man whom King Ahasuerus set above all his officials; he wanted to destroy the Jews and ended hanged on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.
Where else “haman” appears- “The silverכֶּסֶףkesef
money
What is paid and received in exchange, weighed out in silver.
Where else “kesef” appears- is givenנָתוּןnatun
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “natun” appears- and the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- to doעֲשׂוֹתasot
do
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “asot” appears- seems goodטּוֹבtov
fitting
What is fitting: "it is not good for man to be alone".
Where else “tov” appears- in your eyesעֵינֶיene
sight
"In the eyes of" someone: in their view.
Where else “ene” appears
The context
10And the king removed his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of the Jews.
11 · This verse (above)
12And the king’s scribes were summoned in the first month, on the thirteenth day of it, and it was written according to all that Haman commanded, to the king’s satraps and to the governors who were over each province and to the officials of each people, to each province according to its script and each people according to its language; in the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.