Esther 5:14
Old Testament • 26 words with Strong's data
"Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made."
Word-by-Word Analysis
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
עֵץ
ʻêts
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
אַמָּה
ʼammâh
properly, a mother (i.e. unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e. a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)
עֶלְיוֹן
ʻelyôwn
an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme
מָחָר
mâchâr
properly, deferred, i.e. the morrow; usually (adverbially) tomorrow; indefinitely, hereafter
דָבַר
dâbar
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
תָּלָה
tâlâh
to suspend (especially to gibbet)
ἐπί
epí
properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution (with the genitive case), i.e. over, upon, etc.; of res...
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
מִשְׁתֶּה
mishteh
drink, by implication, drinking (the act); also (by implication) a banquet or (generally) feast
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
יָטַב
yâṭab
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
עֵץ
ʻêts
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
עָשָׂה
ʻâsâh
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Key Terms in This Verse
מִשְׁתֶּה mishteh
drink, by implication, drinking (the act); also (by implication) a banquet or (generally) feast
Study H4960 →יָטַב yâṭab
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
Study H3190 →Cross References
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
Their feet are swift to shed blood:
The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
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