פַּרְתַּם
partam · noble
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6579 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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partam (פַּרְתַּם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “noble”.
A leading person of the court (a word of Persian origin).
How to say it
par·tam
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
- Leading people of the court.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Where it appears
- Esther 1:3
in the third year of his reign, he made a banquet for all his officials and his servants: the army of Persia and Media, the nobles and the officials of the provinces being before him,
- Esther 6:9
and let the robe and the horse be given into the hand of a man from among the king’s officials, the nobles, and let them clothe the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them make him ride on the horse through the square of the city, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it will be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”
- Daniel 1:3
And the king told Ashpenaz, the chief of his officials, to bring some of the sons of Israel, both of the royal offspring and of the nobles,