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HebrewH4462Proper Noun (Masculine)

מְמוּכָן

me.mu.khan

3Occurrences
H4462Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Memucan or Momucan, a Persian satrap

or (transp.) מוֹמֻכָן; (Esther 1:16), of Persian derivation;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at § Memucan = "dignified" one of the 7 princes of Persia in the reign of Ahasuerus

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

מְמוּכָן appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Esther
3

Key Passages

Esther 1:14BSB

His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.

Esther 1:16BSB

And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes.

Esther 1:21BSB

The king and his princes were pleased with this counsel; so the king did as Memucan had advised.

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