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And the kingוַ הַמֶּלֶךְsaidיֹּאמֶרthat it should be doneלְהֵעָשׂוֹתso;כֵּןand a lawוַ דָּתwas givenתִּנָּתֵןin Susa,בְּשׁוּשָׁןand they hangedוְ תָּלוּthe tenעֲשֶׂרֶתsonsבְּנֵיof Haman.הָמָן
Esther 9:14
Study it in the app“And the king said that it should be done so; and a law was given in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Esther 9:14, word by word
- And the kingמֶּלֶךְmelech
king
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appears- saidיֹּאמֶרyomer
command
To give someone an order with authority, so that it is done.
Where else “yomer” appears- that it should be doneהֵעָשׂוֹתheasot
carry out
To do what is commanded.
Where else “heasot” appears- and a lawדָּתdat
law, decree
Law, decree.
Where else “dat” appears- was givenתִּנָּתֵןtinaten
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “tinaten” appears- in Susaשׁוּשָׁןshushan
Susa
See it on the mapWhere else “shushan” appears- and they hangedתָּלוּtalu
hang
Hang; often, hang the body of an executed man in view of all.
Where else “talu” appears- the tenעֲשֶׂרֶתaseret
ten
Ten.
Where else “aseret” appears- sonsבְּנֵיbene
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “bene” appears- of 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
Places in this verse
Susa
Today: Susa (Shush), southwestern Iran
The winter capital of the Persian kings, in what is now southwest Iran.
Nehemiah served the king at Susa (Neh 1:1), and Esther became queen there and saved her people (Esth 1:2; 4:16).
The context
13And Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let it be granted also tomorrow to the Jews who are in Susa to do according to the law of today; and let them hang the ten sons of Haman on the pole.”
14 · This verse (above)
15And the Jews who were in Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they killed in Susa three hundred men; but on the plunder they did not stretch out their hand.