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Lexicon :: Strong's H325 - 'ăḥašvērôš

Aa
אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ
Transliteration
'ăḥašvērôš
Pronunciation
akh-ash-vay-rosh'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Persian origin
Strong’s Definitions

אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ ʼĂchashvêrôwsh, akh-ash-vay-rosh'; or (shortened) אַחַשְׁרֹשׁ ʼAchashrôsh (Esther 10:1); of Persian origin; Achashverosh (i.e. Ahasuerus or Artaxerxes, but in this case Xerxes), the title (rather than name) of a Persian king:—Ahasuerus.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x

The KJV translates Strong's H325 in the following manner: Ahasuerus (31x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 31x
The KJV translates Strong's H325 in the following manner: Ahasuerus (31x).

  1. Ahasuerus = "I will be silent and poor"

    1. title of the king of Persia, probably Xerxes

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ ʼĂchashvêrôwsh, akh-ash-vay-rosh'; or (shortened) אַחַשְׁרֹשׁ ʼAchashrôsh (Esther 10:1); of Persian origin; Achashverosh (i.e. Ahasuerus or Artaxerxes, but in this case Xerxes), the title (rather than name) of a Persian king:—Ahasuerus.
STRONGS H325: Abbreviations
אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֺשׁ proper name, masculine Ahasuerus = Xerxes (Persian Khshatřârshâ = mighty + eye or man, see Spiegl. with 216; in Aramaic חשיארש, CISII. i. 122 [B.C. 481]) king of Persia Ezra 4:6; Esther 1:1 (twice in verse); Esther 1:2, 9, 10 + 18 times Esther + Esther 10:1 Qr (Kt אחשׁרשׁ); אֲחַשְׁוֵרשׁ Esther 1:16; Esther 2:21; Esther 3:12; Esther 8:7, 10; also Daniel 9:1 where made father of 'Darius the Mede,' compare Meinh.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ezra

4:6

Esther

1:1; 1:2; 1:9; 1:10; 1:16; 2:21; 3:12; 8:7; 8:10; 10:1

Daniel

9:1

H325

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Strong's Number H325 matches the Hebrew אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ ('ăḥašvērôš),
which occurs 32 times in 30 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:6 - And in the time of Ahasuerus, when he first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:1 - Now it came about in the days of Ahasuerus, (that Ahasuerus who was ruler of a hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom, from India as far as Ethiopia:)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:2 - That in those days, when King Ahasuerus was ruling in Shushan, his strong town,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:9 - And Vashti the queen gave a feast for the women in the house of King Ahasuerus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:10 - On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was glad with wine, he gave orders to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven unsexed servants who were waiting before Ahasuerus the king,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:15 - What is to be done by law to Vashti the queen, because she has not done what King Ahasuerus, by his servants, gave her orders to do?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:16 - And before the king and the captains, Memucan gave his answer: Vashti the queen has done wrong, not only to the king, but to all the captains and to all the peoples in all the divisions of the kingdom of King Ahasuerus;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:17 - For news of what the queen has done will come to the ears of all women, and they will no longer give respect to their husbands when it is said to them, King Ahasuerus gave orders for Vashti the queen to come before him and she came not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 1:19 - If it is pleasing to the king, let an order go out from him, and let it be recorded among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it may never be changed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her place to another who is better than she.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:1 - After these things, when the king's feelings were calmer, the thought of Vashti and what she had done and the order he had made against her, came back to his mind.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12 - Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean):

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:16 - So Esther was taken in to King Ahasuerus in his house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his rule.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:21 - In those days, while Mordecai was seated at the king's doorway, two of the king's servants, Bigthan and Teresh, keepers of the door, being angry, were looking for a chance to make an attack on King Ahasuerus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:1 - After these things, by the order of the king, Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, was lifted up and given a position of honour and a higher place than all the other captains who were with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:6 - But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:7 - In the first month, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, from day to day and from month to month they went on looking for a sign given by Pur (that is chance) before Haman, till the sign came out for the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:8 - And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 3:12 - Then on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king's scribes were sent for, and they put in writing Haman's orders to all the king's captains and the rulers of every division of his kingdom and the chiefs of every people: for every division of the kingdom in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs; it was signed in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with the king's ring.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:2 - It came out that it was recorded in the book how Mordecai had given word of the designs of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's servants, keepers of the door, by whom an attack on the king had been designed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 7:5 - Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, Who is he and where is he who has had this evil thought in his heart?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:1 - That day the king gave all the family of Haman, the hater of the Jews, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had made clear what he was to her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:7 - Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, See now, I have given Esther the family of Haman, and he has come to his death by hanging, because he made an attack on the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:10 - The letters were sent in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with his ring, and they were taken by men on horseback, going on the quick-running horses used for the king's business, the offspring of his best horses:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 8:12 - On one day in every division of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, that is, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:2 - On that day, the Jews came together in their towns through all the divisions of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, for the purpose of attacking all those who were attempting evil against them: and everyone had to give way before them, for the fear of them had come on all the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:20 - And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in every division of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, near and far,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:30 - And he sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with true words of peace,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 10:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 10:1 - And King Ahasuerus put a tax on the land and on the islands of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 10:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 10:3 - For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and respected by the body of his countrymen; working for the good of his people, and saying words of peace to all his seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 9:1 - In the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldaeans;
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