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# מַאֲמַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3982

**word** — used 3 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

word [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3982/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַאֲמָר: n.m. word, command [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3982/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Est 9:32 word, command (late; Mish. id.) cstr. מַאֲמַר Est 1:15; 2:20; 9:32.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the command (3).

## In the verses

[Esther 9:32](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.32/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.9.32/#tree)

וּמַאֲמַ֣ר אֶסְתֵּ֔ר קִיַּ֕ם דִּבְרֵ֥י הַפֻּרִ֖ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה וְנִכְתָּ֖ב בַּסֵּֽפֶר׃פ

*Word for word:* and the.command of.Esther it.confirmed the.words of the.Purim (the) these and \[it.was\].written in the book

*JPS 1917:* And the commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

[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

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/3982/): 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).