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HebrewH1912Noun

הֹ֫דּוּ

ho.du

2Occurrences
H1912Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Hodu (i.e. Hindustan)

of foreign origin;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
§ India = "flee away" or " give ye thanks" the country surrounding the Indus, mentioned as the eastern border of the empire of Ahasuerus

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

הֹ֫דּוּ appears 2 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Esther
2

Key Passages

Esther 1:1BSB

This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.

Esther 8:9BSB

At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan ), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush —writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.