Study it in the app“For if you really keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and the house of your father will perish. And who knows whether for a time like this you have come to the kingdom?””
Mordecai to Esther: who knows whether you came to the kingdom for such a time as this?ProvidenceEsther decides to go in to the king, risking her life: “if I perish, I perish”Courage
Forכִּיifאִםyou really keep silentהַחֲרֵשׁ תַּחֲרִישִׁיat thisבָּ הַזֹּאתtime,עֵתreliefרֶוַחand deliveranceוְהַצָּלָהwill ariseיַעֲמוֹדfor the Jewsלַיְּהוּדִיםfrom anotherמִ אַחֵרplace,מָּקוֹםbut youוְאַתְּand the houseוּבֵיתof your fatherאָבִיךְwill perish.תֹּאבֵדוּAnd whoוּמִיknowsיוֹדֵעַwhetherאִםfor a timeלְעֵתlike thisכָּזֹאתyou have comeהִגַּעַתְּto the kingdom?”לַמַּלְכוּת
be silent
To stay quiet, without answering or speaking.
Where else “hacharesh” appearstime
The moment at which something happens; also "at that time".
Where else “et” appearsrelief
A breathing space: getting out of trouble.
Where else “revach” appearsdeliverance
Deliverance: being brought out of a danger. The word appears only once in the Bible (Esther 4:14).
Where else “hatsala” appearsstand
To be on one's feet, firm in a place, or to rise up to act.
Where else “yaamod” appearsJew, Judean
Jew: a person of Judah, first of the kingdom of Judah and then, in general, of the people descended from it. Its first appearance is 2 Kings 16:6, where it names the men of Judah who lived in Elath. It is frequent in Jeremiah, Nehemiah and Esther.
Where else “yehudim” appearsother
Other, another; next.
Where else “acher” appearsplace
A place, a spot.
Where else “makom” appearshousehold
The family, everyone living under one roof.
Where else “vet” appearsfather
The man who begets a child and heads his household.
Where else “avi” appearsperish
To die, be ruined.
Where else “tovedu” appearsknow
To know something, realize.
Where else “yodea” appearsreach
To reach a place or a moment.
Where else “higaat” appearskingdom
A kingdom: the people and territory a king rules, or the one YHWH rules.
Where else “malchut” appears“From another place”: Mordecai does not say from where. The book of Esther does not name God anywhere, and this translation does not add him.
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.
14 · This verse (above)
15And Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,
