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Forכִּיhowאֵיכָכָהcould Iאוּכַלseeוְרָאִיתִיthe evilבָּרָעָהthatאֲשֶׁרwould findיִמְצָאmy people?עַמִּיAnd howוְאֵיכָכָהcould Iאוּכַלseeוְרָאִיתִיthe ruinבְּאָבְדַןof my kindred?”מוֹלַדְתִּי
Esther 8:6
Study it in the app“For how could I see the evil that would find my people? And how could I see the ruin of my kindred?””
With the Hebrew beneath
Esther 8:6, word by word
- could Iאוּכַלuchal
be able
To have the strength, the permission or the opportunity to do something.
Where else “uchal” appears- seeרָאִיתִיraiti
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “raiti” appears- the evilרָעָהraa
evil
What is evil, the opposite of good.
Where else “raa” appears- would findיִמְצָאyimtsa
meet
To meet someone on the road, or for trouble to fall upon him.
Where else “yimtsa” appears- my peopleעַמִּami
people
A group of people united by family, land and customs: a nation.
Where else “ami” appears- the ruinאָבְדַןavdan
destruction
Ruin, destruction: perishing.
Where else “avdan” appears- of my kindredמוֹלַדְתִּmoladti
kindred
One's family and homeland.
Where else “moladti” appears
The context
5and she said, “If it seems good to the king, and if I have found favor before him, and the matter is right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to turn back the letters, the plot of Haman, son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, which he wrote to make perish the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.
6 · This verse (above)
7And King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “Look, the house of Haman I have given to Esther, and him they have hanged on the pole, because he stretched out his hand against the Jews.