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HebrewH4782Proper Noun (Masculine)

מׇרְדֳּכַי

mor.de.khay

52Occurrences
H4782Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Mordecai, an Israelite

of foreign derivation;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at § 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 ) a Jew who returned from exile with Zerubbabel

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

מׇרְדֳּכַי appears 52 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Esther
50
Ezra
1
Nehemiah
1

Key Passages

Esther 10:2BSB

And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?

Esther 2:22BSB

When Mordecai learned of the plot, he reported it to Queen Esther, and she informed the king on Mordecai’s behalf.

Esther 4:7BSB

and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.

Esther 6:2BSB

And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.

Esther 8:2BSB

The king removed the signet ring he had recovered from Haman and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over the estate of Haman.

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