Esther 10:1

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Esther 10:1


← Esther 9:32 Esther 10:1 (KJV) Esther 10:2 →
And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And the kingH4428 AhasuerusH325 laidH7760 a tributeH4522 upon the landH776, and upon the islesH339 of the seaH3220.


Original Hebrew

וַיָּשֶׂם הַמֶּלֶךְ [אֲחַשֵׁרֹשׁ כ] (אֲחַשְׁוֵרֹושׁ ׀ ק) מַס עַל־הָאָרֶץ וְאִיֵּי הַיָּם׃

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Gloss
וַ/יָּשֶׂם֩
va/i.ya.Sem H7760 HC/Vqw3ms and/ he put
הַ/מֶּ֨לֶךְ
ha./Me.lekh H4428 HTd/Ncmsa the/ king
[אחשרש כ] (אֲחַשְׁוֵר֧וֹשׁ ק)
[ʼĂchashvêrôwsh כ] ('a.cha.she.rosh ק) H325 כ [HNp כ] (HNpm ק) (Ahasuerus ק)
מַ֛ס
mas H4522 HNcmsa a tax
עַל
'al- H5921 HR on
הָ/אָ֖רֶץ
ha./'A.retz H776 HTd/Ncbsa the/ land
וְ/אִיֵּ֥י
ve./'i.Yei H339 HC/Ncmpc and/ (the) islands of
הַ/יָּֽם
hai./Yam H3220 HTd/Ncmsa the/ sea
Where the Hebrew text is written one way but traditionally read another, both are shown: [written form כ] (Ketiv) and (read form ק) (Qere).
Strong's References
  • H325 — אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ (ʼĂchashvêrôwsh, akh-ash-vay-rosh'): or (shortened) אַחַשְׁרֹשׁ (ʼAchashrôsh) (Esther 10:1); of Persian origin; Achashverosh (i.e. Ahasuerus or Artaxerxes, but in this case Xerxes), the title (rather than name) of a Persian king; Ahasuerus.
  • H339 — אִי (ʼîy, ee): from אָוָה (ʼâvâh) H183; properly, a habitable spot (as desirable); dry land, a coast, an island; country, isle, island.
  • H776 — אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, eh'-rets): from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.
  • H3220 — יָם (yâm, yawm): from an unused root meaning to roar; a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south; sea ([idiom] -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
  • H4428 — מֶלֶךְ (melek, meh'-lek): from מָלַךְ (mâlak) H4427; a king; king, royal.
  • H4522 — מַס (maç, mas): or מִס (miç); from מָסַס (mâçaç) H4549; properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor; discomfited, levy, task(-master), tribute(-tary).
  • H7760 — שׂוּם (sûwm, soom): or שִׂים (sîym); a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically); [idiom] any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, [phrase] disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, [phrase] name, [idiom] on, ordain, order, [phrase] paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), [phrase] regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, [phrase] stedfastly, take, [idiom] tell, [phrase] tread down, (over-)turn, [idiom] wholly, work.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

  • H5921 — עַל (ʻal, al): properly, the same as עַל (ʻal) H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications; above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.
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