achashverosh · Ahasuerus

What it means

achashverosh (אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Ahasuerus”.

The Hebrew name of a king of Persia. In Ezra 4:6 and in the book of Esther; Strong identifies him there with Xerxes.

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

• Ezra×1
• Esther×29
• Daniel×1

• Ezra 4:6

  And in the reign of Ahasuerus, at the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

• Esther 1:1

  It happened in the days of Ahasuerus, that Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Cush, over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces,

• Esther 1:2

  in those days, when King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom that was in Susa, the fortress,

• Esther 1:9

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

• Esther 1:10

  On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he told Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,

• 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 2:12

  And when the turn of each young woman came to go in to King Ahasuerus, at the end of twelve months of her being according to the law of the women (for so the days of their ointments were completed: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and with the ointments of the women),

• Esther 2:16

  And Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, to his royal house, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

• Esther 2:21

  In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the gate of the king, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, of the keepers of the threshold, became angry and sought to stretch out their hand against King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 3:1

  After these things King Ahasuerus made great Haman, son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, and exalted him, and set his seat above all the officials who were with him.

• Esther 3:6

  But in his eyes it was beneath him to stretch out his hand against Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai; and Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.

• Esther 3:7

  In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, Pur was cast —that is, the lot— before Haman from day to day and from month to month, to the twelfth, which is the month of Adar.

• Esther 3:8

  And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from those of every people, and the king’s laws they do not keep; and for the king it is not worthwhile to leave them alone.

• Esther 3:12

  And the king’s scribes were summoned in the first month, on the thirteenth day of it, and it was written according to all that Haman commanded, to the king’s satraps and to the governors who were over each province and to the officials of each people, to each province according to its script and each people according to its language; in the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

• Esther 6:2

  And it was found written that Mordecai had made known about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, of the keepers of the threshold, who had sought to stretch out their hand against King Ahasuerus.

• Esther 7:5

  And King Ahasuerus said, and he said to Esther the queen, “Who is this, and where is this one whom his heart has filled to do so?”

• Esther 8:1

  On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Esther the queen the house of Haman, the adversary of the Jews; and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had made known what he was to her.

• Esther 8:7

  And 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.

• Esther 8:10

  And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by the hand of the couriers on horses, riding the royal steeds, sons of the mares,

• Esther 8:12

  on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

• Esther 9:2

  The Jews assembled in their cities in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to stretch out their hand against those who sought their harm; and no one stood before them, for the dread of them had fallen on all the peoples.

• Esther 9:20

  And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, those near and those far,

• Esther 9:30

  And he sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, words of peace and truth,

• Esther 10:1

  And King Ahasuerus imposed tribute on the land and the islands of the sea.

• Esther 10:3

  For Mordecai the Jew was second to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and pleasing to the multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his offspring.

• Daniel 9:1

  In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans,

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