Esther 9:8
in Esther 9Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
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and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
KJV
And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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This verse in Esther 9
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies--The effect of the two antagonistic decrees was, in the meantime, to raise a fierce and bloody war between the Jews and their enemies throughout the Persian empire; but through the dread of Esther and Mordecai, the provincial governors universally favored their cause, so that their enemies fell in great numbers.
This site's exposition
with the stroke of the sword
on Esther 9:5-10
The defense authorized at 8:11 is executed: five hundred in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman the Agagite slain and named one by one, the enemy's house ended in a list. Then the clause the chapter will repeat three times in varying words: BUT ON THE SPOIL LAID THEY NOT THEIR HAND. Saul lost the kingdom flying upon the spoil of Amalek at 1 Sam 15:19; the generation of Kish's house that refuses the plunder three times over finishes the war he forfeited, and the narrator trusts the reader to hear it.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
Queen Esther's endeavor to successfully crush her enemies and root them out reveals the eagerness and zeal of a true queen, namely, of the holy church that constantly fights against her enemies and strives to defeat them completely and subdue them. And it is her …
What can it mean when we read that the Jews pursued their enemies and killed five hundred men in Shushan, except for the ten sons of Haman whom they nailed to gibbets? Merely that to the people of God, it is not only all the …
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֵ֧ת׀ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| פּוֹרָ֛תָא | porata' | Poratha | H6334 → | |
| וְאֵ֥ת׀ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֲדַלְיָ֖א | ʾadalya' | Adalia | H118 → | |
| וְאֵ֥ת׀ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֲרִידָֽתָא׃ | ʾaridata' | Aridatha | H743 → |
וְאֵ֧ת׀and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
פּוֹרָ֛תָאPoratha
porata'H6334 →
וְאֵ֥ת׀and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
אֲדַלְיָ֖אAdalia
ʾadalya'H118 →
וְאֵ֥ת׀and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
אֲרִידָֽתָא׃Aridatha
ʾaridata'H743 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Esther
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther; Rabanus Maurus, EXPLANATION ON THE BOOK OF ESTHER 12; Rabanus Maurus, Commentary on Esther and W. F. Adeney, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Expositor's Bible).