[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%91%D7%96%D7%AA%D7%90/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ב](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/bet/)‎ / בִּזְּתָא‎

# בִּזְּתָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H968

**Biztha** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Biztha [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/968/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּזְּתָא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/968/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a eunuch of Ahasuerus, Est 1:10 (Thes comp. Pers. beste, ligatus sc. membro, e.g. spado, cf. VullersDict. Pers. sub بَستَه ).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Biztha (1).

## In the verses

[Esther 1:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.10/#tree)

בַּיּוֹם֙ הַשְּׁבִיעִ֔י כְּט֥וֹב לֵב־הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ בַּיָּ֑יִן אָמַ֡ר לִ֠מְהוּמָן בִּזְּתָ֨א חַרְבוֹנָ֜א בִּגְתָ֤א וַאֲבַגְתָא֙ זֵתַ֣ר וְכַרְכַּ֔ס שִׁבְעַת֙ הַסָּ֣רִיסִ֔ים הַמְשָׁ֣רְתִ֔ים אֶת־פְּנֵ֖י הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵרֽוֹשׁ׃

*Word for word:* on the day (the) seventh just as.was.good the.heart of the.king by the wine he.said to Mehuman Biztha Harbona Bigtha and Abagtha Zethar and Carcas the.seven the eunuchs \[who\] served (et) the.presence of the.king Ahasuerus

*JPS 1917:* On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Bizzetha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that ministered in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/968.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/968/): 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).