Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H4782
מׇרְדְּכַי
Mordekaymor-dek-ah'-ee
Mordecai
60 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Mordᵉkay
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4782is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 26spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4782
Mordecai, an Israelite
The King James renders it: Mordecai.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Mordekay is rendered "Mordecai". It stands 60 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Fifty-eight of the uses stand in Esther, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 2:2accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:
- The Greek text spells it twenty-six different ways.
The first use
accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:
Ezra 2:2מָרְדֳּכַ֥י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Mordecai43
- and Mordecai7
- for Mordecai4
- to Mordecai4
- and to Mordecai1
- on Mordecai1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 60, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
26 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מָרְדֳּכַ֖י7
- מָרְדֳּכַ֔י6
- מָרְדֳּכָ֑י6
- מָרְדֳּכַי֙5
- מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃5
- לְמָרְדֳּכָ֑י3
- מָרְדֳּכַ֣י3
- וּמָרְדֳּכַ֖י2
- וּמָרְדֳּכַ֗י2
- מָרְדֳּכַ֥י2
- מָרְדֳּכַ֗י2
- מָרְדֳּכַ֛י2
and 14 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)43HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)9HR/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)7HC/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npm
Ezra
one use
accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:
- מָרְדֳּכַ֥יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Nehemiah
one use
accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:
- מָרְדֳּכַ֥יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Esther
fifty-eight uses
Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֗יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֛יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Esther did not reveal her people or her lineage, because Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֛יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Esther’s welfare and what was happening to her.
- מָרְדֳּכַי֙maredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֡יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.
- וּמָרְדֳּכַ֖יumaredokhaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Mordecai
Esther still had not revealed her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed. She obeyed Mordecai’s command, as she had done under his care.
- מָרְדֳּכָ֑יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
- מָרְדֳּכַי֙maredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
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.
- וּמָרְדֳּכַ֖יumaredokhaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Mordecai
When Mordecai learned of the plot, he reported it to Queen Esther, and she informed the king on Mordecai’s behalf.
- לְמָרְדֳּכַ֔יlemaredokhaipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Mordecai
- מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃maredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
All the royal servants at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded that this be done for him. But Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage.
- וּמָ֨רְדֳּכַ֔יumaredokhaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Mordecai
Then the royal servants at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”
- לְמָרְדֳּכָ֑יlemaredokhaipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Mordecai
Day after day they warned him, but he would not comply. So they reported it to Haman to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, since he had told them he was a Jew.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֔יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or pay him homage, he was filled with rage.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֔יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
- בְּמָרְדֳּכַ֣יbemaredokhaipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: on Mordecai
- מָרְדֳּכָ֑יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
- מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃maredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
When Mordecai learned of all that had happened, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.
- וּמָרְדֳּכַ֗יumaredokhaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Mordecai
- מָרְדֳּכַי֙maredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
When Esther’s maidens and eunuchs came and told her about Mordecai, the queen was overcome with distress. She sent clothes for Mordecai to wear instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֗יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs appointed to her, and she dispatched him to Mordecai to learn what was troubling him and why.
- מָרְדֳּכָ֑יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the city square in front of the king’s gate,
- מָרְדֳּכָ֑יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֔יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
So Hathach went back and relayed Mordecai’s response to Esther.
- מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃maredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Then Esther spoke to Hathach and instructed him to tell Mordecai,
- מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃maredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
When Esther’s words were relayed to Mordecai,
- לְמָרְדֳּכָ֔יlemaredokhaipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Mordecai
he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֖יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:
- מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃maredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
So Mordecai went and did all that Esther had instructed him.
- מָרְדֳּכָ֑יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
That day Haman went out full of joy and glad of heart. At the king’s gate, however, he saw Mordecai, who did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence. And Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֜יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
- מָרְדֳּכַ֖יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”
- מָרְדֳּכַ֣יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.
- מָרְדֳּכַי֙maredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
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.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֜יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
The king inquired, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this act?” “Nothing has been done for him,” replied the king’s attendants.
- לְמָרְדֳּכַ֖יlemaredokhaipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Mordecai
“Who is in the court?” the king asked. Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֔יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
“Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.”
- לְמָרְדֳּכַ֣יlemaredokhaipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Mordecai
So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!”
- מָרְדֳּכָ֑יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֖יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”
- מָרְדֳּכַ֞יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.
- לְֽמָרְדֳּכַ֞יlemaredokhaipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Mordecai
So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
- לְמָרְדֳּכָ֑יlemaredokhaipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Mordecai
That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.
- וּמָרְדֳּכַ֗יumaredokhaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Mordecai
The king removed the signet ring he had recovered from Haman and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over the estate of Haman.
- לְמָרְדֳּכָ֑יlemaredokhaipreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Mordecai
- מָרְדֳּכַ֖יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.
- וּֽלְמָרְדֳּכַ֖יulemaredokhaiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Mordecai
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, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֣יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of blue and white, with a large gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.
- וּמָרְדֳּכַ֞יumaredokhaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Mordecai
And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֖יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
For Mordecai exercised great power in the palace, and his fame spread throughout the provinces as he became more and more powerful.
- מָרְדֳּכַי֙maredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
- מָרְדֳּכַ֖יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,
- מָרְדֳּכַ֔יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֖יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
So Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.
- וּמָרְדֳּכַ֥יumaredokhaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Mordecai
in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֤יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?
- מָרְדֳּכַ֔יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Xerxes, preeminent among the Jews and highly favored by his many kinsmen, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.
- מָרְדֳּכַ֣יmaredokhaiproper noun (a name)tagged: Mordecai
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
