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Esther 1:1
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📖 King James Version

Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)

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# Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Translation Definition
1 וַ/יְהִ֖י הָיָה H1961 HC/Vqw3ms הָיָה a primitive root (compare הָוָה); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary): beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use.
2 בִּ/ימֵ֣י יוֹם H3117 HR/Ncmpc יוֹם from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb): age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
3 אֲחַשְׁוֵר֑וֹשׁ אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ H325 HNp אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ or (shortened) Achashrosh (Esth. 10:1); of Persian origin; Achashverosh (i.e. Ahasuerus or Artaxerxes, but in this case Xerxes), the title (rather than name) of a Persian king: Ahasuerus.
4 ה֣וּא הוּא H1931 HPp3ms הוּא of which the feminine (beyond the Pentateuch) is hiyw; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are: he, as for her, him(-self), it, the same, she (herself), such, that (...it), these, they, this, those, which (is), who.
5 אֲחַשְׁוֵר֗וֹשׁ אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ H325 HNp אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ or (shortened) Achashrosh (Esth. 10:1); of Persian origin; Achashverosh (i.e. Ahasuerus or Artaxerxes, but in this case Xerxes), the title (rather than name) of a Persian king: Ahasuerus.
6 הַ/מֹּלֵךְ֙ מָלַך H4427 HTd/Vqrmsa מָלַך a primitive root; to reign; inceptively, to ascend the throne; causatively, to induct into royalty; hence (by implication) to take counsel: consult, X indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen, (begin to, make to) reign(-ing), rule, X surely.
7 מֵ/הֹ֣דּוּ NONE H1912 HR/Np NONE of foreign origin; Hodu (i.e. Hindu-stan): India.
8 וְ/עַד עַד H5704 HC/R עַד properly, the same as עַד (used as a preposition, adverb or conjunction; especially with a preposition); as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with): against, and, as, at, before, by (that), even (to), for(-asmuch as), (hither-)to, + how long, into, as long (much) as, (so) that, till, toward, until, when, while, (+ as) yet.
9 כּ֔וּשׁ כּוּשׁ H3568 HNp כּוּשׁ probably of foreign origin; Cush (or Ethiopia), the name of a son of Ham, and of his territory; also of an Israelite: Chush, Cush, Ethiopia.
10 שֶׁ֛בַע שֶׁ֫בַע H7651 HAcfsa שֶׁ֫בַע or (masculine) shibrah; from שָׁבַע; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number: (+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare שִׁבְעָ֫נָה.
11 וְ/עֶשְׂרִ֥ים עֶשְׂרִים H6242 HC/Acbpa עֶשְׂרִים from עָ֫שֶׂר; twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth: (six-)score, twenty(-ieth).
12 וּ/מֵאָ֖ה NONE H3967 HC/Acbsa NONE or metyah; properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction: hundred((-fold), -th), + sixscore.
13 מְדִינָֽה מְדִינָה H4082 HNcfsa מְדִינָה from דִּין; properly, a judgeship, i.e. jurisdiction; by implication, a district (as ruled by a judge); generally, a region: (X every) province.