Esther 4:15 BSB — MannaFest

Esther 4:15

Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Then Esther bade them return answer unto Mordecai,

KJV

Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,

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Commentary

1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

She believed that God's favour was to be obtained by prayer, that his people are a praying people, and he a prayer-hearing God. She knew it was the practice of good people, in extraordinary cases, to join fasting with prayer, and many of them to join together in both.

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Original language & word study

5 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתֹּ֥אמֶר	va.To.mer	and she said	H559 →
אֶסְתֵּ֖ר	'es.Ter	Esther	H635 →
לְהָשִׁ֥יב	le.ha.Shiv	to bring back	H7725 →
אֶֽל־	'el-	to	H413 →
מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃	ma.re.do.Khai	Mordecai	H4782 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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