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# וַשְׁתִּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2060

**Vashti** — used 10 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

Vashti [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1493/2060/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

וַשְׁתִּי: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1493/2060/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (= Pers. (Zend) vahista, best, cf. JustiHdb. d. Zendsprache, 272) queen of Ahasuerus (Xerxes) king of Persia, Est 1:9, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19; 2:1, 4, 17.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Vashti (10).

## In the verses

[Esther 1:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.9/#tree)

גַּ֚ם וַשְׁתִּ֣י הַמַּלְכָּ֔ה עָשְׂתָ֖ה מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה נָשִׁ֑ים בֵּ֚ית הַמַּלְכ֔וּת אֲשֶׁ֖ר לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵרֽוֹשׁ׃ס

*Word for word:* also Vashti the queen she.made a.feast of.women the.house of.(the) royalty which \[belonged\].to the king Ahasuerus

*JPS 1917:* Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

[Esther 1:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.15/#tree)

כְּדָת֙ מַֽה־לַּעֲשׂ֔וֹת בַּמַּלְכָּ֖ה וַשְׁתִּ֑י עַ֣ל ׀ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹֽא־עָשְׂתָ֗ה אֶֽת־מַאֲמַר֙ הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵר֔וֹשׁ בְּיַ֖ד הַסָּרִיסִֽים׃ס

*Word for word:* according to.\[the\].law what? \[is\].to do with the queen Vashti on that not she.did (et) the.command of the.king Ahasuerus by the.hand of the.eunuchs

*JPS 1917:* 'What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, forasmuch as she hath not done the bidding of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2060.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1493/2060/): 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).