Study it in the app“For Haman, son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to make them perish, and had cast Pur —that is, the lot— to throw them into turmoil and to make them perish.”
ForכִּיHaman,הָמָןsonבֶּןof Hammedatha,הַמְּדָתָאthe Agagite,הָאֲגָגִיthe adversaryצֹרֵרof allכָּלthe Jews,הַיְּהוּדִיםhad plottedחָשַׁבagainstעַלthe Jewsהַיְּהוּדִיםto make them perish,לְאַבְּדָםand had castוְהִפִּילPurפּוּר—that is,הוּאthe lot—הַגּוֹרָלto throw them into turmoilלְהֻמָּםand to make them perish.וּלְאַבְּדָם
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” appearsson
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “ben” appearsHammedatha
Hammedatha: the name of the father of Haman.
Where else “hamdata” appearsAgagite
Agagite: of the family of Agag. So Haman is called. Agag was king of Amalek, a people hostile to Israel (1 Samuel 15).
Where else “agagi” appearsharass
To be someone's enemy.
Where else “tsorer” 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” appearsdevise
To devise a plan or a design, good or bad.
Where else “chashav” appearsdestroy
To make someone or something disappear completely.
Where else “abda” appearscast lots
To make fall; throw lots.
Where else “hipil” appearsPur, lot
Pur: a foreign word that the book of Esther explains as "the lot": what is cast to decide something by chance. From it comes the name of the feast of Purim.
Where else “pur” appearslot
Small stones cast to decide something.
Where else “goral” appearsthrow into confusion
God strikes the enemy with panic.
Where else “huma” appears23And the Jews accepted what they had begun to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.
24 · This verse (above)
25But when she came before the king, he said with the letter that his evil plot, which he had plotted against the Jews, should return on his own head; and they hanged him and his sons on the pole.
