Word

בִּגְתָן

Bigthân · H904 · Hebrew · proper noun · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Bigthan

    Bigthan, a man who was a eunuch and servant of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Xerxes)

    Examples

    Esther 2:21 In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s officials from those who guarded the door, became angry and sought to attack King Ahasuerus.

    Esther 6:2 And it was found written what Mordecai had reported about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who were doorkeepers, that they had sought to attack King Ahasuerus.

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

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Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Near synonyms 1 word
בִּגְתָא Bigthâʼ · H903 · Bigtha
בִּגְתָא (Bigthâʼ, H903) בִּגְתָא is a variant spelling of the same name as בִּגְתָן (Bigthân, H904) בִּגְתָן (Hebrew/Aramaic or alternate form), referring to the same referent and interchangeable in sense.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of People003001007
בִּגְתָן (Bigthan/Bigthana) is a personal name, one of the two royal officials whose plot against Ahasuerus Mordecai uncovered and reported.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H904. Bigthan or Bigthana בִּגְתָן proper name, masculine (Persian bagadâna, gift of…
H904. Bigthan
or Bigthana בִּגְתָן proper name, masculine (Persian bagadâna, gift of God?) a eunuch of Ahasuerus Est 2:21 = בִּגְתָנָא Est 6:2.
בִּגְתָ֫נָא see foregoing.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

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

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