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Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular">Conj-w | V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3ms</a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="strongsnt" valign="top"><span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="Strong's Hebrew 3117: 1) day, time, year <BR> 1a) day (as opposed to night) <BR> 1b) day (24 hour period) <BR> 1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 <BR> 1b2) as a division of time <BR> 1b2a) a working day, a day's journey <BR> 1c) days, lifetime (pl.) <BR> 1d) time, period (general) <BR> 1e) year <BR> 1f) temporal references <BR> 1f1) today <BR> 1f2) yesterday <BR> 1f3) tomorrow">3117</a></span> <span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm" title="Englishman's Hebrew: 3117 -- Occurrence 1431 of 2303">[e]</a></span></td><td class="hebrew2" valign="top">בִּימֵ֣י<br /><span class="translit"><a href="/hebrew/bimei_3117.htm" title="bi·Mei: the days -- Occurrence 32 of 53.">bî-mê</a></span></td><td class="eng" valign="top">in the days</td><td class="pos" valign="top"><span class="pos"><a href="/hebrewparse.htm" title="Preposition-b :: Noun - masculine plural construct">Prep-b | N-mpc</a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="strongsnt" valign="top"><span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/325.htm" title="Strong's Hebrew 325: Ahasuerus = 'I will be silent and poor'<BR> 1) title of the king of Persia, probably Xerxes">325</a></span> <span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_325.htm" title="Englishman's Hebrew: 325 -- Occurrence 2 of 31">[e]</a></span></td><td class="hebrew2" valign="top">אֲחַשְׁוֵר֑וֹשׁ<br /><span class="translit"><a href="/hebrew/achashveroosh_325.htm" title="a·chash·ve·Roosh;: of Ahasuerus -- Occurrence 2 of 24.">’ă-ḥaš-wê-rō-wōš;</a></span></td><td class="eng" valign="top">of Ahasuerus</td><td class="pos" valign="top"><span class="pos"><a href="/hebrewparse.htm" title="Noun - proper - masculine singular">N-proper-ms</a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="strongsnt" valign="top"><span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/1931.htm" title="Strong's Hebrew 1931: pron 3p s<BR> 1) he, she, it <BR> 1a) himself (with emphasis) <BR> 1b) resuming subj with emphasis <BR> 1c) (with minimum emphasis following predicate) <BR> 1d) (anticipating subj) <BR> 1e) (emphasising predicate) <BR> 1f) that, it (neuter) demons pron <BR> 2) that (with article)">1931</a></span> <span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1931.htm" title="Englishman's Hebrew: 1931 -- Occurrence 1248 of 1877">[e]</a></span></td><td class="hebrew2" valign="top">ה֣וּא<br /><span class="translit"><a href="/hebrew/hu_1931.htm" title="hu: he -- Occurrence 590 of 865.">hū</a></span></td><td class="eng" valign="top">he [was]</td><td class="pos" valign="top"><span class="pos"><a href="/hebrewparse.htm" title="Pronoun - third person masculine singular">Pro-3ms</a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="strongsnt" valign="top"><span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/325.htm" title="Strong's Hebrew 325: Ahasuerus = 'I will be silent and poor'<BR> 1) title of the king of Persia, probably Xerxes">325</a></span> <span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_325.htm" title="Englishman's Hebrew: 325 -- Occurrence 3 of 31">[e]</a></span></td><td class="hebrew2" valign="top">אֲחַשְׁוֵר֗וֹשׁ<br /><span class="translit"><a href="/hebrew/achashveroosh_325.htm" title="a·chash·ve·Roosh,: (this Ahasuerus -- Occurrence 3 of 24.">’ă-ḥaš-wê-rō-wōš,</a></span></td><td class="eng" valign="top">the Ahasuerus</td><td class="pos" valign="top"><span class="pos"><a href="/hebrewparse.htm" title="Noun - proper - masculine singular">N-proper-ms</a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="strongsnt" valign="top"><span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/4427.htm" title="Strong's Hebrew 4427: 1) to be or become king or queen, reign <BR> 1a) (Qal) to be or become king or queen, reign <BR> 1b) (Hiphil) to make one king or queen, cause to reign <BR> 1c) (Hophal) to be made king or queen <BR> 2) to counsel, advise <BR> 2a) (Niphal) to consider">4427</a></span> <span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4427.htm" title="Englishman's Hebrew: 4427 -- Occurrence 313 of 348">[e]</a></span></td><td class="hebrew2" valign="top">הַמֹּלֵךְ֙<br /><span class="translit"><a href="/hebrew/hammolech_4427.htm" title="ham·mo·leCh: reigned -- Occurrence 1 of 2.">ham-mō-lêḵ</a></span></td><td class="eng" valign="top">who reigned over</td><td class="pos" valign="top"><span class="pos"><a href="/hebrewparse.htm" title="Article :: Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular">Art | V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms</a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="strongsnt" valign="top"><span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/1912.htm" title="Strong's Hebrew 1912: India = 'flee away' or ' give ye thanks'<BR> 1) the country surrounding the Indus, mentioned as the eastern border of the empire of Ahasuerus">1912</a></span> <span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1912.htm" title="Englishman's Hebrew: 1912 -- Occurrence 1 of 2">[e]</a></span></td><td class="hebrew2" valign="top">מֵהֹ֣דּוּ<br /><span class="translit"><a href="/hebrew/mehoddu_1912.htm" title="me·Hod·du: India -- Occurrence 1 of 2.">mê-hōd-dū</a></span></td><td class="eng" valign="top">from India</td><td class="pos" valign="top"><span class="pos"><a href="/hebrewparse.htm" title="Preposition-m :: Noun - proper - feminine singular">Prep-m | N-proper-fs</a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="strongsnt" valign="top"><span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/5704.htm" title="Strong's Hebrew 5704: prep<BR> 1) as far as, even to, until, up to, while, as far as <BR> 1a) of space <BR> 1a1) as far as, up to, even to <BR> 1b) in combination <BR> 1b1) from...as far as, both...and (with 'min' -from) <BR> 1c) of time <BR> 1c1) even to, until, unto, till, during, end <BR> 1d) of degree <BR> 1d1) even to, to the degree of, even like <BR> conj <BR> 2) until, while, to the point that, so that even">5704</a></span> <span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5704.htm" title="Englishman's Hebrew: 5704 -- Occurrence 871 of 1260">[e]</a></span></td><td class="hebrew2" valign="top">וְעַד־<br /><span class="translit"><a href="/hebrew/vead_5704.htm" title="ve·'ad-: unto -- Occurrence 155 of 222.">wə-‘aḏ-</a></span></td><td class="eng" valign="top">and to</td><td class="pos" valign="top"><span class="pos"><a href="/hebrewparse.htm" title="Conjunctive waw :: Preposition">Conj-w | Prep</a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="strongsnt" valign="top"><span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/3568.htm" title="Strong's Hebrew 3568: Cush = 'black' <BR> n pr m <BR> 1) a Benjamite mentioned only in the title of Ps 7:1 <BR> 2) the son of Ham and grandson of Noah and the progenitor of the southernmost peoples located in Africa <BR> 3) the peoples descended from Cush <BR> n pr loc <BR> 4) the land occupied by the descendants of Cush located around the southern parts of the Nile (Ethiopia)">3568</a></span> <span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3568.htm" title="Englishman's Hebrew: 3568 -- Occurrence 9 of 30">[e]</a></span></td><td class="hebrew2" valign="top">כּ֔וּשׁ<br /><span class="translit"><a href="/hebrew/kush_3568.htm" title="Kush,: Ethiopia -- Occurrence 5 of 20.">kūš,</a></span></td><td class="eng" valign="top">Ethiopia</td><td class="pos" valign="top"><span class="pos"><a href="/hebrewparse.htm" title="Noun - proper - feminine singular">N-proper-fs</a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="strongsnt" valign="top"><span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/7651.htm" title="Strong's Hebrew 7651: 1) seven (cardinal number) <BR> 1a) as ordinal number <BR> 1b) in combination-17, 700 etc">7651</a></span> <span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7651.htm" title="Englishman's Hebrew: 7651 -- Occurrence 336 of 394">[e]</a></span></td><td class="hebrew2" valign="top">שֶׁ֛בַע<br /><span class="translit"><a href="/hebrew/sheva_7651.htm" title="She·va': and seven -- Occurrence 110 of 124.">še-ḇa‘</a></span></td><td class="eng" valign="top">seven</td><td class="pos" valign="top"><span class="pos"><a href="/hebrewparse.htm" title="Number - feminine singular">Number-fs</a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="strongsnt" valign="top"><span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/6242.htm" title="Strong's Hebrew 6242: 1) twenty, twentieth">6242</a></span> <span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6242.htm" title="Englishman's Hebrew: 6242 -- Occurrence 259 of 315">[e]</a></span></td><td class="hebrew2" valign="top">וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים<br /><span class="translit"><a href="/hebrew/veesrim_6242.htm" title="ve·'es·Rim: and twenty -- Occurrence 67 of 94.">wə-‘eś-rîm</a></span></td><td class="eng" valign="top">and twenty</td><td class="pos" valign="top"><span class="pos"><a href="/hebrewparse.htm" title="Conjunctive waw :: Number - common plural">Conj-w | Number-cp</a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="strongsnt" valign="top"><span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/3967.htm" title="Strong's Hebrew 3967: 1) hundred <BR> 1a) as simple number <BR> 1b) as part of larger number <BR> 1c) as a fraction-one one-hundredth (1/100)">3967</a></span> <span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3967.htm" title="Englishman's Hebrew: 3967 -- Occurrence 520 of 578">[e]</a></span></td><td class="hebrew2" valign="top">וּמֵאָ֖ה<br /><span class="translit"><a href="/hebrew/umeah_3967.htm" title="u·me·'Ah: an hundred -- Occurrence 32 of 34.">ū-mê-’āh</a></span></td><td class="eng" valign="top">and a hundred</td><td class="pos" valign="top"><span class="pos"><a href="/hebrewparse.htm" title="Conjunctive waw :: Number - feminine singular">Conj-w | Number-fs</a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="strongsnt" valign="top"><span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/4082.htm" title="Strong's Hebrew 4082: 1) province, district <BR> 1a) district <BR> 1b) province">4082</a></span> <span class="strongs"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4082.htm" title="Englishman's Hebrew: 4082 -- Occurrence 9 of 53">[e]</a></span></td><td class="hebrew2" valign="top">מְדִינָֽה׃<br /><span class="translit"><a href="/hebrew/medinah_4082.htm" title="me·di·Nah.: provinces -- Occurrence 1 of 13.">mə-ḏî-nāh.</a></span></td><td class="eng" valign="top">provinces</td><td class="pos" valign="top"><span class="pos"><a href="/hebrewparse.htm" title="Noun - 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Nile Valley">כּ֔וּשׁ</a></span>  <span class="hebrew"><a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/7651.htm" title="she·va: and seven -- 7651: seven">שֶׁ֛בַע</a></span>  <span class="hebrew"><a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/6242.htm" title="ve·'es·rim: and twenty -- 6242: twenty">וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים</a></span>  <span class="hebrew"><a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/3967.htm" title="u·me·'ah: an hundred -- 3967: hundred">וּמֵאָ֖ה</a></span>  <span class="hebrew"><a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/4082.htm" title="me·di·nah.: provinces -- 4082: a province">מְדִינָֽה׃</a></span>  </span></div><div align="left"><span class="versiontextkjvs"><a href="//kjvs.scripturetext.com/esther/1.htm">KJV with Strong's</a> </span><br><span class="kjvs"><a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/3117.htm" title="yowm (yome) -- age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day">Now it came to pass in the days</a> <a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/325.htm" title="'Achashverowsh (akh-ash-vay-rosh') -- Ahasuerus">of Ahasuerus</a> <a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/325.htm" title="'Achashverowsh (akh-ash-vay-rosh') -- Ahasuerus">this is Ahasuerus</a> <a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/4427.htm" title="malak (maw-lak') -- consult, X indeed, be (make, set a, set up) king, be (make) queen">which reigned</a> <a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/1912.htm" title="Hoduw (ho'-doo) -- India">from India</a> <a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/3568.htm" title="Kuwsh (koosh) -- Chush, Cush, Ethiopia">even unto Ethiopia</a> <a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/3967.htm" title="me'ah (may-aw') -- hundred((-fold), -th), + sixscore">over an hundred</a> <a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/7651.htm" title="sheba' (sheh'-bah) -- (+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times)">and seven</a> <a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/6242.htm" title="esriym (es-reem') -- (six-)score, twenty(-ieth)">and twenty</a> <a href="//strongsnumbers.com/hebrew/4082.htm" title="mdiynah (med-ee-naw') -- (X every) province">provinces</a></span></div><div align="right"><span class="versiontext"><a href="//wlc.hebrewtanakh.com/esther/1.htm">אסתר 1:1 Hebrew OT: Westminster Leningrad Codex</a><br></span><span class="heb">וַיְהִ֖י בִּימֵ֣י אֲחַשְׁוֵרֹ֑ושׁ ה֣וּא אֲחַשְׁוֵרֹ֗ושׁ הַמֹּלֵךְ֙ מֵהֹ֣דּוּ וְעַד־כּ֔וּשׁ שֶׁ֛בַע וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּמֵאָ֖ה מְדִינָֽה׃</span><p><span class="versiontext"><a href="//wlco.hebrewtanakh.com/esther/1.htm">אסתר 1:1 Hebrew OT: WLC (Consonants Only)</a><br></span><span class="heb">ויהי בימי אחשורוש הוא אחשורוש המלך מהדו ועד־כוש שבע ועשרים ומאה מדינה׃</span><p><span class="versiontext"><a href="//paleo-wlc.hebrewtanakh.com/esther/1.htm">אסתר 1:1 Paleo-Hebrew OT: WLC (Font Required)</a><br></span><span class="paleoheb">ויהי בימי אחשורוש הוא אחשורוש המלך מהדו ועד־כוש שבע ועשרים ומאה מדינה׃</span><p><span class="versiontext"><a href="//mod.hebrewtanakh.com/esther/1.htm">אסתר 1:1 Hebrew Bible</a><br></span><span class="heb">ויהי בימי אחשורוש הוא אחשורוש המלך מהדו ועד כוש שבע ועשרים ומאה מדינה׃</span></div><div class="jmp"><a href="/texts/esther/1-1.htm">Additional Parallel Hebrew</a></div><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/esther/1.htm">New American Standard Bible </a></span><br />Now it took place in the days of Ahasuerus, the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/esther/1.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this <i>is</i> Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, <i>over</i> an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/esther/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />These events took place during the days of Ahasuerus, who ruled 127 provinces from India to Cush. <div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="hdg">Ahasuerus. Prideaux has shewn satisfactorily that Ahasuerus was the Artaxerxes Longimanus of the Greeks, agreeably to the Septuagint and Josephus. See note on</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="/ezra/6-14.htm" style="color:#001320"><span class="vtext">Ezra 6:14</span> And the elders of the Jews built, and they prospered through the …</a></p><p class="tskverse"><a href="/ezra/4-6.htm" style="color:#001320"><span class="vtext">Ezra 4:6</span> And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign…</a></p><p class="tskverse"><a href="/daniel/9-1.htm" style="color:#001320"><span class="vtext">Daniel 9:1</span> In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of …</a></p><p class="hdg">from India.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="/esther/8-9.htm" style="color:#001320"><span class="vtext">Esther 8:9</span> Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, …</a></p><p class="tskverse"><a href="/isaiah/18-1.htm" style="color:#001320"><span class="vtext">Isaiah 18:1</span> Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:</a></p><p class="tskverse"><a href="/isaiah/37-9.htm" style="color:#001320"><span class="vtext">Isaiah 37:9</span> And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come …</a></p><p class="hdg">an hundred.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="/daniel/6-1.htm" style="color:#001320"><span class="vtext">Daniel 6:1</span> It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, …</a></p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/esther/1-1.htm">Esther 1:1</a> • <a href="/niv/esther/1-1.htm">Esther 1:1 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/esther/1-1.htm">Esther 1:1 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/esther/1-1.htm">Esther 1:1 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/esther/1-1.htm">Esther 1:1 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/esther/1-1.htm">Esther 1:1 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/esther/1-1.htm">Esther 1:1 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/esther/1-1.htm">Esther 1:1 Biblia Paralela</a> • <a href="//holybible.com.cn/esther/1-1.htm">Esther 1:1 Chinese Bible</a> • <a href="//saintebible.com/esther/1-1.htm">Esther 1:1 French Bible</a> • <a href="//bibeltext.com/esther/1-1.htm">Esther 1:1 German Bible</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../nehemiah/13-31.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Nehemiah 13:31"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 13:31" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../esther/1-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Esther 1:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Esther 1:2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div> <div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>