Word

אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפַּן

ʼăchashdarpan · H323 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

governor, satrap

Person in charge of part of the Babylonian and Persian empires

Examples
Ezra 8:36 Then they delivered the king’s edicts to the king’s satraps and the governors in the provinces beyond the Euphrates River, and they supported the people and the house of God.
Esther 3:12 Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written just as Haman commanded to the king’s satraps, to the governors who were over each province and to the officials of each people, each province according to its script, each people according to its language, being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.
Esther 8:9 So the king’s scribes were summoned at that time in the third month (that is, the month Sivan), on the twenty-third day; and it was written in accordance with everything that Mordecai commanded the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the officials of the provinces which extended from India to Cush, 127 provinces, to every province according to its script, and to every people according to their language, as well as to the Jews according to their script and their language.

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

מֶלֶךְking 2

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

נָשָׂאto lift up, to carry, to bear 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

אֵלto, toward 2
לto/for 2

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 2 entries

Leaders001001003005: אֲחַשְׁדַרְפַּן names the satraps, provincial rulers sent the king's edicts along with the governors over the provinces beyond the Euphrates (Ezra 8:36).
Officials001001003007: The word designates a formal administrative office, the satrap ranking among the governors and officials to whom Mordecai's decree was sent (Esther 8:9).

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפַּןʼăchashdarpan · H323אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפַּן ʼăchashdarpan · H324 · prince · 9×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H323. achashdarpan אֲחַשְׁדַּרְמְּנִים noun masculine plural satraps (Persian…

H323. achashdarpan
אֲחַשְׁדַּרְמְּנִים noun masculine plural satraps (Persian Khshatrapâvan, protectors of the realm, see SpiegAPK 215 = ἐξατράπης, σατράπης, compare LagG. Abh. 68, 14: Semitic i. 42 f, who reads אַחְשַׁדְרְפָן) — ׳א Est 8:9; Est 9:3; construct אֲחַשְׁדַּרְמְּנֵי Est 3:11; Ezr 8:36.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Leaders4 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