Word Study · Strong's H904 · Hebrew
בִּגְתָן
Bigthan
big-thawn'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Bigthân
“Bigthan or Bigthana, a eunuch of Xerxes”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Bigthan or Bigthana, a eunuch of Xerxes
Rendered in the KJV as
Bigthan, Bigthana.
- 2occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 2 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- בִּגְתָ֨ן1
- בִּגְתָ֣נָא1
How it is rendered · 2
- Bigthan1
- Bigthana1
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How it parses · 1
- proper noun (a name)2
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Esther2 occurrences
- Esther 2:21בִּגְתָ֨ןbigtanproper noun (a name)In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the entrance, grew angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.here: Bigthan
- Esther 6:2בִּגְתָ֣נָאbigtana'proper noun (a name)And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.here: Bigthana