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# מְמוּכָן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4462

**Memucan** — 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

Memucan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4462/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְמוּכָן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4462/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. a prince of Persia and Media—Est 1:14, 21 also v 16 Qr; Kt מומכן. 𝔊 Μουχαιος, Μαμουχαιος.

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

## In the verses

[Esther 1:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.21/#tree)

וַיִּיטַב֙ הַדָּבָ֔ר בְּעֵינֵ֥י הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ וְהַשָּׂרִ֑ים וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ כִּדְבַ֥ר מְמוּכָֽן׃

*Word for word:* and it.was.good the word in the.eyes of the.king and the officials and he.did the king according to.the.word of.Memucan

*JPS 1917:* And the word pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan;

[Esther 1:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.1.14/#tree)

וְהַקָּרֹ֣ב אֵלָ֗יוכַּרְשְׁנָ֤א שֵׁתָר֙ אַדְמָ֣תָא תַרְשִׁ֔ישׁ מֶ֥רֶס מַרְסְנָ֖א מְמוּכָ֑ן שִׁבְעַ֞ת שָׂרֵ֣י ׀ פָּרַ֣ס וּמָדַ֗י רֹאֵי֙ פְּנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ הַיֹּשְׁבִ֥ים רִאשֹׁנָ֖ה בַּמַּלְכֽוּת׃

*Word for word:* and the.\[ones\] close to him \[were\].Carshena Shethar Admatha Tarshish Meres Marsena Memucan the.seven the.officials of.Persia and Media \[who\].saw (of).the.face of the.king \[who\] sat foremost in the kingdom

*JPS 1917:* and the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat the first in the kingdom:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4462.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4462/): 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).