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And Estherוַ אֶסְתֵּרtold themתֹּאמֶרto replyלְהָשִׁיבto Mordecai,אֶל מָרְדֳּכָי
Esther 4:15
Study it in the app“And Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,”
Esther decides to go in to the king, risking her life: “if I perish, I perish”Courage
With the Hebrew beneath
Esther 4:15, word by word
- And Estherאֶסְתֵּרester
Esther
Esther: the other name of Hadassah, the Jewish young woman, cousin of Mordecai, who became queen of Persia and delivered her people.
Where else “ester” appears- told themתֹּאמֶרtomer
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “tomer” appears- to replyהָשִׁיבhashiv
bring back
To return something, restore.
Where else “hashiv” appears- to Mordecaiמָרְדֳּכָיmardochay
Mordecai
Mordecai: the name of one of those who returned with Zerubbabel; in the book of Esther, the relative who raised Esther.
Where else “mardochay” appears
The context
14For 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?”
15 · This verse (above)
16“Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and do not eat and do not drink for three days, night and day. I also and my young women will fast in the same way; and so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.”