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Lexicon :: Strong's H4782 - mārdᵊḵay

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מָרְדְּכַי
Transliteration
mārdᵊḵay
Pronunciation
mor-dek-ah'-ee
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of foreign derivation
Strong’s Definitions

מׇרְדְּכַי Mordᵉkay, mor-dek-ah'-ee; of foreign derivation; Mordecai, an Israelite:—Mordecai.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x

The KJV translates Strong's H4782 in the following manner: Mordecai (60x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 60x
The KJV translates Strong's H4782 in the following manner: Mordecai (60x).
  1. Mordecai = "little man" or "worshipper of Mars"

    1. cousin and adoptive father of queen Esther; son of Jair of the tribe of Benjamin; deliverer under Divine providence of the children of Israel from the destruction plotted by Haman the chief minister of Ahasuerus; institutor of the feast of Purim

    2. a Jew who returned from exile with Zerubbabel

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מׇרְדְּכַי Mordᵉkay, mor-dek-ah'-ee; of foreign derivation; Mordecai, an Israelite:—Mordecai.
STRONGS H4782: Abbreviations
מָרְּדֳּכַי (van d. H. מָרְדְּכַי) proper name, masculine Mordecai (perhaps from n. div. Marduk (מְרֹרַךְ), ZimZAW xi.161 ff.; compare further Wild (citing Jensen)Comm. Est. 173 f.); — מ׳ Ezra 2:2; Esther 2:5 +; מָרְדֳּכָ֑י Esther 2:22 +; —
1. companion of Zerubbabel, according to Ezra 2:2 = Nehemiah 7:7. Greek Version of the LXX Μαραθχαιος, Μαρδοχαιος, etc:
2. cousin and adoptive father of Esther Esther 2:5, 7, 10 + 55 times Esther. Greek Version of the LXX Μαρδοχαιος.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ezra

2:2; 2:2

Nehemiah

7:7

Esther

2:5; 2:5; 2:7; 2:10; 2:22

H4782

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4782 matches the Hebrew מָרְדְּכַי (mārdᵊḵay),
which occurs 60 times in 52 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Ezr 2:2–Est 9:31)

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:2 - [fn]These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, [fn]Seraiah, [fn]Reelaiah, Mordecai H4782, Bilshan, [fn]Mispar, Bigvai, [fn]Rehum, and Baanah.

The number of the men of the people of Israel:

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:7 - who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, [fn]Azariah, [fn]Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai H4782, Bilshan, [fn]Mispereth, Bigvai, [fn]Nehum, Baanah.

The number of men of the people of Israel:

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:5 -

Now there was at the citadel in Susa a Jew. And his name was Mordecai H4782, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:7 - And he was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had no father or mother. Now the young lady was beautiful in form and beautiful in appearance, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai H4782 took her as his own daughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:10 - Esther did not tell anyone about her people or her kinsmen, for Mordecai H4782 had commanded her that she should not tell anyone about them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:11 - And every day Mordecai H4782 walked back and forth in front of the court of the harem to know the well-being of Esther and [fn]how she fared.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:15 -

Now when it reached the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai H4782 who had taken her as his daughter, to go in to the king, she did not seek anything except what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who kept charge of the women, said. And Esther advanced in favor in the eyes of all who saw her.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:19 -

And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai H4782 was sitting at the king’s gate.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:20 - Esther had not yet told anyone about her kinsmen or her people, just as Mordecai H4782 had commanded her; indeed Esther was doing [fn]what Mordecai H4782 declared that she do, just as she had done when she was being brought up by him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:21 - In those days, while Mordecai H4782 was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs from those who were doorkeepers, became furious and sought to send forth their hand against King Ahasuerus.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:22 - But the matter became known to Mordecai H4782, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther said it to the king in Mordecai’s H4782 name.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:2 - And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate were bowing down and prostrating themselves before Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai H4782 would not bow down or prostrate himself.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:3 - So the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai H4782, “Why do you trespass against the king’s command?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:4 - Now it happened when they had spoken daily to him and he would not listen to them, that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai’s H4782 words would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:5 - Then Haman saw that Mordecai H4782 was not bowing down or prostrating himself before him. So Haman was filled with wrath.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:6 - But he despised in his eyes to send forth his hand against Mordecai H4782 alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai H4782 were; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai H4782, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:1 -

Now Mordecai H4782 came to know of all that had been done. And [fn]he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and cried out loudly and bitterly.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:4 -

Then Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, and the queen writhed in great anguish. And she sent garments to clothe Mordecai H4782 and to remove his sackcloth from upon him, but he did not accept them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:5 - Then Esther summoned Hathach from the king’s eunuchs, whom [fn]the king had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai H4782 to know what this was and why it was.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:6 - So Hathach went out to Mordecai H4782 to the city square in front of the king’s gate.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - And Mordecai H4782 told him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of silver that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries to cause the Jews to perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:9 -

Then Hathach came back and told Mordecai’s H4782 words to Esther.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:10 - Then Esther spoke to Hathach and commanded him to reply to Mordecai H4782:
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:12 - So they told Esther’s words to Mordecai H4782.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:13 -

Then Mordecai H4782 said for them to respond to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s [fn]house can escape any more than all the Jews.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:15 - Then Esther said for them to respond to Mordecai H4782,
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:17 - So Mordecai H4782 went away and did just as Esther had commanded him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:9 -

Then Haman went out that day glad and merry of heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai H4782 in the king’s gate and that he did not stand up or [fn]tremble before him, Haman was filled with wrath against Mordecai H4782.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:13 - “Yet all of this is worth nothing to me every time I see Mordecai H4782 the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Have a [fn]gallows [fn]fifty cubits high made and in the morning say to the king that Mordecai H4782 should be hanged on it; then go gladly with the king to the feast.” And the word was good to Haman, so he had the gallows made.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:2 - And it was found written what Mordecai H4782 had told concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs from those who were doorkeepers, that they had sought to send forth their hand against King Ahasuerus.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:3 - And the king said, “What honor or greatness has been done to Mordecai H4782 for this?” Then the king’s young men who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:4 - So the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had entered the outer court of the king’s house in order to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai H4782 on the gallows which he had set up for him.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:10 -

Then the king said to Haman, “Take quickly the robes and the horse as you have said, and do so for Mordecai H4782 the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate; do not fall short in anything of all that you have spoken.”

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:11 - So Haman took the robe and the horse and clothed Mordecai H4782 and led him on horseback through the city square and called out before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:12 -

Then Mordecai H4782 returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hastened home, mourning, with his head covered.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:13 - And Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai H4782, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:9 - Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were before the king, said, “Behold indeed, the gallows—which Haman made for Mordecai H4782 who spoke good on behalf of the king—are standing at Haman’s house fifty cubits high!” And the king said, “Hang him on it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:10 - So they hanged Haman on the [fn]gallows which he had set up for Mordecai H4782, and the king’s wrath subsided.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:1 -

On that day King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the adversary of the Jews, to Queen Esther; and Mordecai H4782 came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:2 - And the king removed his signet ring, which he had taken away from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai H4782. And Esther set Mordecai H4782 over the house of Haman.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:7 - So King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai H4782 the Jew, “Behold, I have given the house of Haman to Esther, and him they have hanged on the [fn]gallows because he had sent forth his hand against the Jews.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:9 -

So the king’s scribes were called at that time in the third month (that is, the month Sivan), on the twenty-third [fn]day; and it was written according to all that Mordecai H4782 commanded to the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the princes of the provinces which extended from India to [fn]Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to every province according to its script, and to every people according to their tongue as well as to the Jews according to their script and their tongue.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:15 -

Then Mordecai H4782 went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of [fn]blue and fine white, with a large crown of gold and a garment of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa cried aloud and was glad.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:3 - Even all the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and those who were doing the king’s work [fn]advanced the Jews, because the dread of Mordecai H4782 had fallen on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:4 - Indeed, Mordecai H4782 was great in the king’s house, and the report about him went throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai H4782 became greater and greater.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:20 -

Then Mordecai H4782 wrote down these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:23 -

Thus the Jews fully accepted what they had started to do and what Mordecai H4782 had written to them.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:29 -

Then Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, with Mordecai H4782 the Jew, wrote with full authority to establish this second letter about Purim.

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:31 - to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai H4782 the Jew and Queen Esther had established for them, and just as they had established for themselves and for their seed with words concerning their times of fasting and their crying out.

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