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# הֲתָךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2047

**Hatach** — used 4 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

Hatach [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2047/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֲתָךְ: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2047/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a Persian official at court of Ahasuerus Est 4:5, 6, 9, 10.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hathach (4).

## In the verses

[Esther 4:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.4.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.4.9/#tree)

וַיָּב֖וֹא הֲתָ֑ךְ וַיַּגֵּ֣ד לְאֶסְתֵּ֔ר אֵ֖ת דִּבְרֵ֥י מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and he.came Hathach and he.told to Esther (et) the.words of.Mordecai

*JPS 1917:* And Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

[Esther 4:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.4.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.4.10/#tree)

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר אֶסְתֵּר֙ לַהֲתָ֔ךְ וַתְּצַוֵּ֖הוּ אֶֽל־מָרְדֳּכָֽי׃

*Word for word:* and she.said Esther to Hathach and she commanded.him to Mordecai

*JPS 1917:* Then Esther spoke unto Hathach, and gave him a message unto Mordecai:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2047.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/2047/): 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).