vashti · Vashti

What it means

vashti (וַשְׁתִּי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Vashti”.

The name of the queen, wife of King Ahasuerus, who refused to come before him and lost her place.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• Esther 1:9

  Vashti the queen also made a banquet for women in the royal house that belonged to King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 1:11

  to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the peoples and the officials her beauty; for she was of good appearance.

• Esther 1:12

  But Queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king that came by the hand of the eunuchs. And the king became very angry, and his fury burned within him.

• Esther 1:15

  “According to the law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti, because she has not done the command of King Ahasuerus sent by the hand of the eunuchs?”

• Esther 1:16

  And Memucan said before the king and the officials, “Not against the king alone has Vashti the queen committed iniquity, but against all the officials and against all the peoples that are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 1:17

  For the matter of the queen will go out to all the women, making their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when they say, ‘King Ahasuerus said to bring Vashti the queen before him, and she did not come.’

• Esther 1:19

  If it seems good to the king, let a royal word go out from before him, and let it be written among the laws of Persia and Media, and let it not pass away: that Vashti is not to come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royalty to her companion who is better than she.

• Esther 2:1

  After these things, when the fury of King Ahasuerus had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.

• Esther 2:4

  and the young woman who seems good in the eyes of the king let her reign instead of Vashti.” And the matter seemed good in the eyes of the king, and he did so.

• Esther 2:17

  And the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won favor and loyal love before him more than all the virgins; and he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.