Word Study · Strong's H4099 · Hebrew
מְדָתָא
Medatha
med-aw-thaw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Mᵉdâthâʼ
“Medatha, the father of Haman”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Medatha, the father of Haman
Rendered in the KJV as
Hammedatha (including the article).
- 5occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 5 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- הַמְּדָ֛תָא3
- הַמְּדָ֙תָא֙1
- הַמְּדָ֜תָא1
How it is rendered · 1
- Hammedatha5
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- proper noun (a name)5
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- HNpm · 5
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Esther5 occurrences
- Esther 3:1הַמְּדָ֛תָאhamedata'proper noun (a name)After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.here: Hammedatha
- Esther 3:10הַמְּדָ֛תָאhamedata'proper noun (a name)So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.here: Hammedatha
- Esther 8:5הַמְּדָ֙תָא֙hamedata'proper noun (a name)“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.here: Hammedatha
- Esther 9:10הַמְּדָ֛תָאhamedata'proper noun (a name)They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.here: Hammedatha
- Esther 9:24הַמְּדָ֜תָאhamedata'proper noun (a name)For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.here: Hammedatha