Mordecai
Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third
month, that [is], the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth
[day] thereof; and it was written according to all that
Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and
the deputies and rulers of the provinces which [are] from
India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and se...
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And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every
[thing] that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and
Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai [be] of the seed of the
Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not
prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him....
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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....
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Mordecai or Mordechai (Hebrew: מָרְדֳּכַי, Modern Mordekhay
Tiberian Mordŏḵáy) - the son of Jair, of the tribe of
Benjamin, is one of the main personalities in the Book of
Esther in the Hebrew Bible. Mordecai resided in Susa (a.k.a.
Shushan), the metropolis of Persia. He adopted his cousin
Hadassah (Esther), an orphan child, whom he tenderly b...
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mor'-de-ki, mor-de-ka'-i (mordekhay; Mardochaios): An
Israelite of the tribe of Benjamin, whose fate it has been
to occupy a distinguished place in the annals of his people.
His great-grandfather, Kish, had been carried to Babylon
along with Jeconiah, king of Judah (Est 2:5-6). For nearly
60 years before the scenes narrated in Esther, in which...
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-A Jewish captive in Persia
Es 2:5,6
-Foster father of Esther
Es 2:7
-Informs Ahasuerus of a conspiracy against his life and is
rewarded
Es 2:21-23; 6:1-11
-Promoted in Haman's place
Es 8:1,2,15; 10:1-3
-Intercedes with Ahasuerus for the Jews; establishes the
festival of Purim in commemoration of their
deliverance
Es 8; 9...
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(little man, or worshipper or Mars), the deliverer, under
divine Providence, of the Jews from the destruction plotted
against them by Haman the chief minister of Xerxes; the
institutor of the feast of Purim. The incidents of his history
are too well known to need to be dwelt upon. [ESTHER] Three
things are predicated of Mordecai in the book of...
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the son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. It has been
alleged
that he was carried into captivity with Jeconiah,
and hence that
he must have been at least one hundred and twenty-
nine years old
in the twelfth year of Ahasuerus (Xerxes). But the
words of
Esther do not necessarily lead to this conclusion.
It was
probably Kish of whom it is s...
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A Persian name according to Gesenius, "worshipper of
Merodach". But a Babylonian idol's name would not have been
given him under the Persian dynasty, which rejected idols.
It is rather Matacai. Ctesias (Prideaux Connect. 1:231-233),
who probably saw the Medo-Persian chronicles mentioned in
Esther 10:2, names a Matacas, Xerxes' chief favorite, ...
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