Esther 4:12

“And they made known to Mordecai the words of Esther.”

Esther 4:12 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Mordecai to Esther: who knows whether you came to the kingdom for such a time as this?Providence

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Esther 4:12, word by word

And they made knownיַּגִּידוּyagidu

tell

To tell someone something he does not know or has not seen.

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to Mordecaiמָרְדֳּכָיmardochay

Mordecai

Mordecai: the name of one of those who returned with Zerubbabel; in the book of Esther, the relative who raised Esther.

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the wordsדִּבְרֵיdivre

word

What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.

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of Estherאֶסְתֵּרester

Esther

Esther: the other name of Hadassah, the Jewish young woman, cousin of Mordecai, who became queen of Persia and delivered her people.

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The context

11“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who goes in to the king, into the inner court, who has not been called, his law is one: to put him to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, and he will live. But I have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days.”

12 · This verse (above)

13And Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine for yourself that you will escape in the king’s house more than all the Jews.

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