Esther 7:3 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתַּ֨עַן	va.Ta.'an	and she answered	H6030 →
אֶסְתֵּ֤ר	'es.Ter	Esther	H635 →
הַמַּלְכָּה֙	ha.mal.Kah	the queen	H4436 →
וַתֹּאמַ֔ר	va.to.Mar	and she said	H559 →
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
מָצָ֨אתִי	ma.Tza.ti	I have found	H4672 →
חֵ֤ן	chen	favor	H2580 →
בְּעֵינֶ֙יךָ֙	be.'ei.Nei.kha	in view your	H5869 →
הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	O king	H4428 →
וְאִם־	ve.'im-	and if	H518 →
עַל־	'al-	[is] on	H5921 →
הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
ט֑וֹב	Tov	good	H2896 →
תִּנָּֽתֶן־	ti.na.ten-	let it be given	H5414 →
לִ֤י	li	to me
נַפְשִׁי֙	naf.Shi	life my	H5315 →
בִּשְׁאֵ֣לָתִ֔י	bish.'E.la.Ti	for petition my	H7596 →
וְעַמִּ֖י	ve.'a.Mi	and people my	H5971 →
בְּבַקָּשָׁתִֽי׃	be.va.ka.sha.Ti	for request my	H1246 →

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Job 2:4
“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
leads to
- Philippians 3:8–10
  More than that, I count all things as loss compared to the surpassing excellence of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may…
- Matthew 6:25
  Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more…
- Matthew 16:26
  What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
- Jeremiah 41:8
  But ten of the men among them said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us, for we have hidden treasure in the field—wheat, barley, oil, and honey!” So he refrained from killing them with the…
- Esther 7:3–4
  Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my…
Through
Jeremiah 38:26
then tell them, ‘I was presenting to the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”
leads to
- Jeremiah 37:20
  But now please listen, O my lord the king. May my petition come before you. Do not send me back to the house of Jonathan the scribe, or I will die there.”
- Jeremiah 37:15
  The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.
Through
Esther 7:7
In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king was…
leads to
- Esther 1:12
  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.

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Jeremiah 38:26then tell them, ‘I was presenting to the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”Esther 8:5“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.Job 2:4“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.Esther 7:7In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king was planning a terrible fate for him.Psalms 122:6–9Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May those who love you prosper.2 Kings 1:13So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, “Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants please be precious in your sight.1 Kings 20:31Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”Esther 4:8Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for the destruction of the Jews, to show and explain to Esther, urging her to approach the king, implore his favor, and plead before him for her people.Nehemiah 2:5and answered the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, I ask that you send me to Judah, to the city where my fathers are buried, so that I may rebuild it.”Esther 5:8If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”

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