Word Study · Strong's H4462 · Hebrew
מְמוּכָן
Memukan
mem-oo-kawn'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Mᵉmûwkân
“Memucan or Momucan, a Persian satrap”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Memucan or Momucan, a Persian satrap
Rendered in the KJV as
Memucan.
- 3occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 3 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- מְמוּכָ֑ן1
- מְמוּכָ֗ן1
- מְמוּכָֽן׃1
How it is rendered · 1
- Memucan3
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)3
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- HNpm · 3
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The ledger of occurrences
Esther3 occurrences
- Esther 1:14מְמוּכָ֑ןmemukhanproper noun (a name)His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.here: Memucan
- Esther 1:16מְמוּכָ֗ןmumekhanproper noun (a name)And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes.here: Memucan
- Esther 1:21מְמוּכָֽן׃memukhanproper noun (a name)The king and his princes were pleased with this counsel; so the king did as Memucan had advised.here: Memucan