וְאֵ֧ת פּוֹרָ֛תָא וְאֵ֥ת אֲדַלְיָ֖א וְאֵ֥ת אֲרִידָֽתָא
and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Esther 9:8
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Esther 9:8 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
Highlights
- 3 hapax legomena — only here in the Hebrew Bible
- 3 first appearances in the Hebrew Bible
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and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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and Poratha and Adalia and Aridatha
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World English Bible Public Domain
and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
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Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
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And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And Phoratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
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and Poratha and Adalia and Aridatha
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and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
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And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
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Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
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and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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פּוֹרָ֛תָא
Pôwrâthâʼ
H6334
“Poratha”
Noun, Proper
- Appears 1× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Proper
Full BDB Definition
Poratha = "fruitfulness" or " frustration"
- one of the ten sons of Haman, the enemy of Mordecai and Esther
- וְאֵ֧ת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- פּוֹרָ֛תָא Pôwrâthâʼ H6334 “Poratha” Noun, Proper
- וְאֵ֥ת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- אֲדַלְיָ֖א ʼĂdalyâʼ H118 “Adalia” Noun, Proper
- וְאֵ֥ת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- אֲרִידָֽתָא ʼĂrîydâthâʼ H743 “Aridatha” Noun, Proper
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 6
- words
- 4
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
3 hapax legomena — words that appear only here in the entire Hebrew Bible:
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Grammatical profile
- 3 nouns
- 3 particles
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 6 words from the Hebrew and 6 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 6 Hebrew tokens and 6 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί φαρδαθα καί βαρεα καί σαρβαχα
and Pharadatha, and Barea, and Sarbaca,
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Esther, in the Historical, opens this verse with 6 words (4 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Pôwrâthâʼ (“Poratha”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “Poratha” (Pôwrâthâʼ) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- This verse holds 3 words here found nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. What might the rare words draw attention to?
- 3 words here appear for the first time in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
Things to notice
- 3 words in this verse appear nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible.
- 3 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 6 Greek words.
- 4 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.