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# בַּקָּשָׁה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1246

**request** — used 8 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

request [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1246/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּקָּשָׁה: n.m. request, entreaty [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1246/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. request, entreaty, בַּקָּשָׁתִי Est 5:7, 8; 7:3; בַּקָּשָׁתֵךְ; Est 5:3; 9:12; בַּקָּשָׁתוֹ Ezr 7:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 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: request (8).

## In the verses

[Esther 5:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.7/#tree)

וַתַּ֥עַן אֶסְתֵּ֖ר וַתֹּאמַ֑ר שְׁאֵלָתִ֖י וּבַקָּשָׁתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and she.answered Esther and she.said petition my and request my

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Esther, and said: 'My petition and my request is —

[Esther 5:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.3/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר לָהּ֙ הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ מַה־לָּ֖ךְ אֶסְתֵּ֣ר הַמַּלְכָּ֑ה וּמַה־בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֛ךְ עַד־חֲצִ֥י הַמַּלְכ֖וּת וְיִנָּ֥תֵֽן לָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to her the king what? \[is\].to you O.Esther the queen and what? request \[is\].your up.to (the).half of the.kingdom and it.will.be.given to you

*JPS 1917:* Then said the king unto her: 'What wilt thou, queen Esther? for whatever thy request, even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be given thee.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1246/): 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).