Word

הָמָן

Hâmân · H2001 · Hebrew · proper noun · 54 occurrences

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Person

Hamanfirst named in Esther 3:145 verses

Meanings

Haman

A man, son of Hammedatha and descendant of Agag, who tried to exterminate all Jews in the kingdom of Persia

Examples
Esther 3:1 After these events King Ahasuerus honored Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and promoted him and established his authority over all the officials who were with him.
Esther 3:2 All the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman; for so the king had commanded regarding him. But Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage.
Esther 3:4 Now it was when they had spoken daily to him and he would not listen to them, that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 2 groups

זֶהthis 1
רַעevil, bad 1

Named alongside itApposition

7 occurrences in 3 groups

בֵּןson 5
אֲגָגִיAgagite 5
צָרַרto distress, to be hostile, to bind up 4

What it doesIt is the subject

30 occurrences in 17 groups

בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 6
אָמַרto say 5
Other words · 15 groups that occur once or twice (19) 19

What is done to itIt is the object

4 occurrences in 4 groups

גָּדַלto be great, to grow up, to magnify 1
מָהַרto hurry, to hasten 1
תָּלָהto hang 1
בּוֹאto come, to go in, to bring 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אִישׁman, person, each 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 11
מִןfrom 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

13 occurrences in 5 groups

בַּיִתhouse, household 4
בֵּןson 4
פָּנִיםface, presence, before 3
מַחֲשָׁבָהthought, plan 1
רַעevil, bad 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: הָמָן is the personal name Haman, the Agagite son of Hammedatha whom King Ahasuerus promotes and who becomes the chief adversary of Mordecai and the Jews in Esther.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2001. Haman הָמָן proper name, masculine Haman, favourite of Ahasuerus (etymology…

H2001. Haman
הָמָן proper name, masculine Haman, favourite of Ahasuerus (etymology dubious; according to JenVOJ 1892, 58 ff. = Elamite proper name, of divinity Humban, or Humman) — Est 3:1 53t. in Esther.
המס (√ of following; meaning dubious).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People54 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0