Memucan
And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti
the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to
all the princes, and to all the people that [are] in all the
provinces of the king Ahasuerus....
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And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king
did according to the word of Memucan:...
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And the next unto him [was] Carshena, Shethar, Admatha,
Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, [and] Memucan, the seven princes of
Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, [and] which sat
the first in the kingdom;)...
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According to the biblical book of Esther (Esther 1:14, 1:16-
21), Memucan was one of the seven vice-regents of the Persian
King Ahasuerus. It is not stated in the text explicitly, but
it is the generally accepted belief that Memucan and Haman
were the same person.
When Queen Vashti, Ahasuerus' consort, refused his order to
display herself at th...
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me-mu'-kan (memukhan; derivation unknown but probably of
Persian origin (Est 1:14,16,21)): One of "the seven princes of
Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in
the kingdom." Ahasuerus consults these men, as those "that
knew law and judgment," as to the proper treatment of the
rebellious Vashti. Memucan is the spokesman of t...
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-One of the seven princes of Ahasuerus who counsels the king
to
divorce Queen Vashti
Es 1:14-21...
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(dignified), one of the seven princes of Persia in the reign
of Ahasuerus, who "saw the king's face," and sat first in the
kingdom. Es 1:14,16,21...
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dignified, one of the royal counsellors at the court of
Ahasuerus, by whose suggestion Vashti was divorced
(Esther 1:14,
16, 21)....
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One of the seven princes who "saw the king's face and sat
first in the kingdom" (Esther 1:13-14); "wise men who knew the
times and law and judgment." Ahasuerus accordingly consulted
them, "what shall we do unto Vashti according to law?" Memucan
as president of the council owing to his wisdom and age, or
else as an obsequious courtier knowing h...
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impoverished; to prepare; certain; true...
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