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# אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H325

**Ahasuerus** — used 31 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Ahasuerus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/325/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ: n.pr.m. Ahasuerus [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/325/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Ahasuerus = Xerxes (Pers. Khshayârshâ = mighty + eye or man, vid. Spiegel l.c. 216; in Aramaic חשיארש, CISII. i. 122 \[b.c. 481\]) king of Pers. Ezr 4:6 Est 1:1(×2), 2, 9, 10 + 18 textual Est + Est 10:1 Qr (Kt אחשׁרשׁ); אֲחַשְׁוֵרֹשׁ Est 1:16; 2:21; 3:12; 8:7, 10; also Dn 9:1 where made father of ‘Darius the Mede,’ cf. Meinh.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Ahasuerus (26); of Ahasuerus (5).

## In the verses

[Esther 10:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.10.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.10.1/#tree)

וַיָּשֶׂם֩ הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֧וֹשׁ ׀ מַ֛ס עַל־הָאָ֖רֶץ וְאִיֵּ֥י הַיָּֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.put the king Ahasuerus a.tax on the land and the.islands of the.sea

*JPS 1917:* And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.

[Ezra 4:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.6/#tree)

וּבְמַלְכוּת֙ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֔וֹשׁ בִּתְחִלַּ֖ת מַלְכוּת֑וֹ כָּתְב֣וּ שִׂטְנָ֔ה עַל־יֹשְׁבֵ֥י יְהוּדָ֖ה וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* and in the.reign of.Ahasuerus at the.beginning his.reign his they.wrote an.accusation on the.inhabitants of.Judah and Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/325.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/325/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).