Esther 2:16

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

• וַתִּלָּקַ֨חand she was taken

  vatilakachH3947 →966 times

• אֶסְתֵּ֜רEsther

  ʾesterH635 →55 times

• אֶל־to

  ʾel-H413 →5510 times

• הַמֶּ֤לֶךְthe king

  hamelekhH4428 →2525 times

• אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ֙Ahasuerus

  ʾachashverovoshH325 →31 times

• אֶל־into

  ʾel-H413 →5510 times

• בֵּ֣ית[the] house of

  beitH1004 →2046 times

• מַלְכוּת֔וֹroyalty his

  malkhutoH4438 →91 times

• בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁin the month

  bachodeshH2320 →284 times

• הָעֲשִׂירִ֖י<the> tenth

  haasiriH6224 →

• הוּא־that

  hu'-H1931 →1879 times

• חֹ֣דֶשׁ[is] [the] month of

  chodeshH2320 →284 times

• טֵבֵ֑תTebeth

  tevetH2887 →

• בִּשְׁנַת־in year

  bishnat-H8141 →877 times

• שֶׁ֖בַעseven

  sheva'H7651 →394 times

• לְמַלְכוּתֽוֹ׃of reign his

  lemalkhutoH4438 →91 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

• Through

  Esther 8:9

  At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors,…

  it leads to

  • Esther 1:22

    He sent letters to all the provinces of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be master of his…

  • Esther 1:1

    This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.

  • Esther 3:12–13

    On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of…

• Through

  Esther 2:1

  Some time later, when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done, and what had been decreed against her.

  it leads to

  • Daniel 6:14–18

    As soon as the king heard this, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel, and he labored until sundown to rescue him.

  • Esther 7:10

    So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

  • Esther 1:12–21

    Queen Vashti, however, refused to come at the king’s command brought by his eunuchs. And the king became furious, and his anger burned within him.

• Through

  Esther 2:3

  and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care…

  it leads to

  • Esther 2:8–9

    When the king’s command and edict had been proclaimed, many young women gathered at the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai. Esther was also taken to the palace and placed under the…

  • Esther 2:12–15

    In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes…