Esther
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Esther 1:1
וַיְהִ֖י בִּימֵ֣י אֲחַשְׁוֵר֑וֹשׁ ה֣וּא אֲחַשְׁוֵר֗וֹשׁ הַמֹּלֵךְ֙ מֵהֹ֣דּוּ וְעַד כּ֔וּשׁ שֶׁ֛בַע וְעֶשְׂרִ֥ים וּמֵאָ֖ה מְדִינָֽה
and to be · in/at days of · Ahasuerus · he · Ahasuerus · the reigning · from India · and until · Cush · seven · and twenty · and hundred · province
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Words Esther uses most
Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of Esther — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.
- מֶ֫לֶךְ H4428 melek king 196
- כֹּל H3605 kôl all 73
- יְהוּדִי H3064 Yᵉhûwdîy Jew 58
- מׇרְדֳּכַי H4782 Mordᵉkay Mordecai 58
- עָשָׂה H6213 ʻâsâh to do 55
- אֶסְתֵּר H635 ʼEçtêr Esther 55
- הָמָן H2001 Hâmân Haman 54
- יוֹם H3117 yôwm day 53
- אָמַר H559 ʼâmar to say 53
- מְדִינָה H4082 mᵉdîynâh province 39
- דָּבָר H1697 dâbâr word 37
- פָּנֶה H6440 pânîym face 37
About this book
- 10 Chapters
- 167 Verses
- 3,057 Hebrew words
- 464 Distinct lemmas
Esther is part of the Hebrew Old Testament and contains 10 chapters in the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Hebrew text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and parsing (part of speech, stem, person, gender, number, state). Pick a chapter above to begin.
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