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# הָמָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2001

**Haman** — used 54 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

Haman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2001/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הָמָן: n.pr.m. Haman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2001/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Haman, favourite of Ahasuerus (etym. dub.; according to JenVOJ 1892, 58 ff. = Elamit. n.pr.div. Ḫumban, or Ḫumman)—Est 3:1 + 53 times in Esther.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Haman (43); of Haman (11).

## In the verses

[Esther 7:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.7.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.7.1/#tree)

וַיָּבֹ֤א הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ וְהָמָ֔ן לִשְׁתּ֖וֹת עִם־אֶסְתֵּ֥ר הַמַּלְכָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.went the king and Haman to drink with Esther the queen

*JPS 1917:* So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.

[Esther 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.6.7/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר הָמָ֖ן אֶל־הַמֶּ֑לֶךְ אִ֕ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ חָפֵ֥ץ בִּיקָרֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Haman to the king a.man whom the king he.delights in honor his

*JPS 1917:* And Haman said unto the king: 'For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2001.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2001/): 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).