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אֱסָר

esar · prohibition, decree

Aramaic word · Strong’s number H633 · appears 7 times in the Bible

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What it means

esar (אֱסָר) is an Aramaic word of the Bible that means “prohibition, decree”.

Prohibition, binding decree (Aramaic): an order of the king that forbids something.

How to say it

e·sar

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.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. A written order of the king that forbids something, in Aramaic.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

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Where it appears

  • Daniel 6:7

    All the supervisors of the kingdom, the prefects and the satraps, the advisers and the governors, have agreed to establish a royal statute and to enforce a prohibition, that whoever makes a request of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of the lions.

  • Daniel 6:8

    Now, O king, establish the prohibition and sign the writing, so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.”

  • Daniel 6:9

    Therefore King Darius signed the writing and the prohibition.

  • Daniel 6:12

    Then they came near and said before the king concerning the prohibition of the king, “Did you not sign a prohibition, that any man who makes a request of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of the lions?” The king answered and said, “The matter is certain, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.”

  • Daniel 6:13

    Then they answered and said before the king, “Daniel, who is of the sons of the exile of Judah, has paid no attention to you, O king, or to the prohibition that you signed; but three times a day he makes his request.”

  • Daniel 6:15

    Then these men came thronging to the king and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no prohibition or statute that the king establishes may be changed.”

And 1 more times.