haman · Haman

What it means

haman (הָמָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “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.

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 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 3:2

  And all the king’s servants who were in the gate of the king knelt and bowed down to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him; but Mordecai did not kneel nor bow down.

• Esther 3:4

  And it happened, when they spoke to him day after day and he did not listen to them, that they made it known to Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s words would stand; for he had made known to them that he was a Jew.

• Esther 3:5

  And Haman saw that Mordecai was not kneeling or bowing down to him, and Haman was filled with fury.

• 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 3:10

  And the king removed his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of the Jews.

• Esther 3:11

  And the king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, and the people, to do with it as seems good in your eyes.”

• 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 3:15

  The couriers went out urged on by the word of the king, and the law was given in Susa, the fortress. And the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.

• Esther 4:7

  And Mordecai made known to him all that had happened to him, and the sum of the silver that Haman had said he would weigh out to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to make them perish.

• Esther 5:4

  And Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have made for him.”

• Esther 5:5

  And the king said, “Make Haman hurry, to do the word of Esther.” And the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had made.

• Esther 5:8

  if I have found favor in the eyes of the king, and if it seems good to the king to grant my request and to do my petition, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will make for them, and tomorrow I will do according to the word of the king.”

• Esther 5:9

  And Haman went out that day glad and good of heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, and that he did not rise and did not tremble before him, Haman was filled with fury against Mordecai.

• Esther 5:10

  But Haman restrained himself and went to his house; and he sent and brought his friends and Zeresh his wife.

• Esther 5:11

  And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches and the abundance of his sons, and all the ways in which the king had made him great and how he had exalted him above the officials and the servants of the king.

• Esther 5:12

  And Haman said, “What is more, Esther the queen did not bring with the king to the banquet that she made anyone but me; and also for tomorrow I am invited by her with the king.

• Esther 5:14

  And Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let them make a pole fifty cubits high, and in the morning tell the king that they should hang Mordecai on it; then go with the king to the banquet glad.” And the matter seemed good to Haman, and he made the pole.

• Esther 6:4

  And the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come to the outer court of the king’s house to say to the king to hang Mordecai on the pole that he had prepared for him.

• Esther 6:5

  And the king’s young men said to him, “Look, Haman is standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.”

• Esther 6:6

  So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What is to be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?” And Haman said in his heart, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?”

• Esther 6:7

  And Haman said to the king, “The man whom the king delights to honor,

• Esther 6:10

  And the king said to Haman, “Hurry, take the robe and the horse, as you have spoken, and do so to Mordecai the Jew who sits in the king’s gate; do not let anything fall from all that you have spoken.”

• Esther 6:11

  And Haman took the robe and the horse, and clothed Mordecai, and made him ride through the square of the city, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it will be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”

• Esther 6:12

  And Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.

• Esther 6:13

  And Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and to all his friends all that had happened to him; and his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the offspring of the Jews, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”

• Esther 6:14

  They were still speaking with him when the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had made.

• Esther 7:1

  So the king and Haman came to drink with Esther the queen.

• Esther 7:6

  And Esther said, “A man, an adversary and an enemy: Haman, this evil man!” And Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

• Esther 7:7

  And the king rose in his fury from the banquet of wine and went to the garden of the palace; and Haman stayed to petition Esther the queen for his life, for he saw that evil had been determined against him by the king.

• Esther 7:8

  And the king returned from the garden of the palace to the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman had fallen on the couch on which Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even subdue the queen with me present in the house?” The word went out of the mouth of the king, and they covered Haman’s face.

• Esther 7:9

  And Harbona, one of the eunuchs, said before the king, “Also, look, the pole that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke well for the king, is standing at the house of Haman, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on it.”

• Esther 7:10

  And they hanged Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai; and the fury of the king subsided.

• 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 8:2

  And the king removed his ring, which he had taken away from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai; and Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

• Esther 8:3

  And Esther spoke again before the king, and fell before his feet, and wept and implored him to take away the evil of Haman the Agagite and his plot that he had plotted against the Jews.

• Esther 8:5

  and she said, “If it seems good to the king, and if I have found favor before him, and the matter is right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to turn back the letters, the plot of Haman, son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, which he wrote to make perish the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.

• 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.

And 14 more times.