וַשְׁתִּי
Vashti
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H2060 appears — 10 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Esther 10 verses
- Esther 1:9 וַשְׁתִּ֣י n Proper Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
- Esther 1:11 וַשְׁתִּ֧י n Proper to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful to look on.
- Esther 1:12 וַשְׁתִּ֗י n Proper But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the chamberlains: therefore was the king very angry, and his anger burned in him.
- Esther 1:15 וַשְׁתִּ֑י n Proper What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
- Esther 1:16 וַשְׁתִּ֣י n Proper Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen has not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the peoples who are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
- Esther 1:17 וַשְׁתִּ֧י n Proper For this deed of the queen will come abroad to all women, to make their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn't come.
- Esther 1:19 וַשְׁתִּ֗י n Proper If it please the king, let there go forth a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it not be altered, that Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.
- Esther 2:1 וַשְׁתִּי֙ n Proper After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
- Esther 2:4 וַשְׁתִּ֑י n Proper and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti. The thing pleased the king; and he did so.
- Esther 2:17 וַשְׁתִּֽי n Proper The king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
About this entry
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ושתי (Vashtîy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Vashti.” It clusters heavily in Esther, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. With 10 verses in 1 book, it is an uncommon word in the Hebrew Bible. It first appears in Esther 1:9. For the data behind this summary, explore 10-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2060 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 10
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 10 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,342
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,342 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 10 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Esther 10 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 10 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 10 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Vashti 8×, Instead of vashti 2×
- American Standard Version: Vashti 8×, Instead of vashti 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Vashti 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Vashti 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2060 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2060 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2060 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
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Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Vashti = "beautiful"
- the queen, wife of Ahasuerus, whom he divorced for disobeying his orders
Word origin
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.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of Persian origin
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שְׁנַיִם
- (b. h.) two. Ber. 8ᵃ ש׳ מקרא ואחד תרגום reading the Scriptural portion of the week twice, and the Targum once. Ib. שיעור ש׳ פתחים a distance of two gates. Zeb. V, 4, v. מַתָּנָה. Sabb. I, 1 ש׳ שהן ארבע two ways of transfer from place to place, which become four (by rabbinical addition). Ib. שְׁנֵיהֶם פטורין both of them are free. Snh. V, 3 בש׳ בחדש on the second day of the month. Ib. בש׳ שעות in the second hour of the day. Men. III, 3. Ib. 6; a. v. fr.—שְׁנֵים עָשָׂר, שְׁתֵּים עֶשְׂרֵה twelve. Nidd. 69ᵇ. Ab. Zar. 3ᵇ; a. fr.
שְׁתֵּי
- , v. שְׁנַיִם
שתי
- (b. h.) [to be settled, satisfied,] to drink. Pes. 86ᵇ השׁוֹתֶה כוסו וכ׳ he who drinks his cupful at one draught is called greedy (גַּרְגְּרָן). Ber. 51ᵃ מקבלו … ושׁוֹתֵהוּ בשמאל he must receive it (the medicine, v. אִסְפַּרְגּוֹס) with his right hand, and drink it (take it to his lips) with his left hand. Ib.ᵇ השותה כפלים he who drinks an even number of cups (v. זוּג). Tosef. Sot. XV, 11; B. Bath. 60ᵇ כשחרב … ושלא לִשְׁתּוֹת יין when the Temple was destroyed, … there were many scrupulous persons (פרושים, determined) not to eat meat nor drink wine. Ib. נִשְׁתֶּה יין וכ׳ should we drink wine, of which libations were offered on the altar? Ib. מים לא נשתה וכ׳ then let us drink no water, because water libation has ceased. Keth. 8ᵇ רבים שָׁתוּ רבים יִשְׁתּוּ many have drank (the cup of mourning), many shall drink, v. מִשְׁתֶּה. Nidd. 24ᵇ כמה … שָׁתַת אמו וכ׳ how much unmixed wine the mother of this embryo must have drunk!; a. fr.—Part. pass. שָׁתוּי being under the influence of drink. Erub. 64ᵃ שְׁתוּי יין אל וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. only שָׁ׳) one feeling the wine must not pray, contrad. to שִׁכּוֹר, q. v. Lev. R. s. 12 שנכנסו שְׁתוּיֵי יין וכ׳ they (Nadab and Abihu) entered the Tabernacle while under the influence of wine; a. fr.—[Hif. from שָׁקָה q. v.]
שְׁתֵי
- Targ. Gen. IX, 21. Targ. I Sam. XXX, 12; a. fr.—Targ. Deut. XXXIII, 22 שַׁתְיָא (Y. II שתימין, corr. acc.).—Y. Shek. IV, 47ᶜ top כד הוה שָׁתֵי וכ׳ when he had drunk the four cups of wine on the Passover night &c.; Y. Sabb. VIII, beg. 11ᵃ; Y. Pes. X, 37ᶜ. Erub. 64ᵃ כל כמה דלא שָׁתֵינָא וכ׳ so long as I have not drunk a fourth (of a Log) of wine, my mind is not clear. Sabb. 152ᵃ עד … מכאן ואילך מִשְׁתֵּי מעלי up to forty years eating is more salutary, after that drinking is more salutary. R. Hash. 4ᵃ כלבתא בת משתי חמרא היא (ed. משתיא) does a bitch drink wine?; Yalk. Neh. 1069 מי שַׁתְיָא חמרא; a. fr.—With prefixed אִשְׁתֵּי ׃א, אִישְׁ׳. Targ. O. Ex. XXXIV, 28 ed. Berl. (ed. Vien. שתי); Y. אש׳. Targ. O. Gen. XXIV, 14 אִישְׁתְּ (ed. Vien. אֵשְׁתְּ) imperative; a. fr.—Erub. 54ᵃ חטוף … ואִישְׁתֵּי make haste and eat, make haste and drink (enjoy life, v. חֲטַף). Lev. R. s. 12 עשרה … אִישְׁתֵּית thou drankest ten &c., v. קִיסְטָא I. Yeb. 65ᵇ אִישְׁתִּיָא סמא וכ׳ she drank a drug causing barrenness; a. fr.—R. Hash. 4ᵃ מִשְׁתָּיֵא, v. supra.
- to be drunk. Targ. O. Lev. XI, 34 דיִשְׁתְּתֵי (Y. דיִשְׁתֵּיתֵי; h. text יִשָּׁתֶה).
שתי ²
- [to settle,]
- 1. to lay the foundation of; v. שָׁתַת II.
- 2. to fix the warp, start the loom, v. שְׁתִי.
- 1. to found, establish, v. שָׁתַת II.
- 2. to weave. Midr. Sam. ch. XIX (ref. to נסכתי, Ps. II, 6) הִשְׁתֵּיתִיו I have woven him (established him, ref. to מסכת, Jud. XVI, 14); Yalk. Is. 338; Yalk. Ps. 620 השיתיו (corr. acc.). e.g. Psalms 2:6
- to be established, started. Y. Yoma V, 42ᶜ, v. שְׁתִיָּה II; a. e.
- same. Tosef. Yoma III (II), 6 ed. Zuck. (Var. נשתת), v. שָׁתַת II
שְׁתֵי ²
- , to weave. Targ. Jud. XVI, 13 תִּשְׁתִּין (ed. Lag. a. oth. תִּשְׁתִּן, not תַּן …).
- , (Pe. with prefixed א) אִשְׁתֵּי, אִישְׁ׳ same,
- 1. to start the loom, weave. Targ. Ps. CXXXIX, 13 אַשְׁתְּיָת, ed. Wil. (ed. Lag. אִישְׁתְּיָית; h. text תסכני). Targ. Job X, 11.—Y. Sabb. VII, 10ᶜ top כד מַשְׁתָּיָיא וכ׳, v. קוּבְיָה. Y. Taan. IV, 64ᶜ דלא למִישְׁתָּיֵיא מן וכ׳ not to start a loom from the beginning of the month of Ab; Y. Pes. IV, 30ᵈ top; Yalk. Ps. 653 למשתי יינא (corr. acc.).
- 2. to found, establish. Targ. Ps. VIII, 3 ed. Lag. (ed. Wil. אַשְׁתֵּסְ׳, not אִ׳, v. שְׁתַאס; h. text יסד).
שְׁתִי
- preced.) warp; trnsf. longitudinal direction, v. עֵרֶב. Y. Shek. VI, 50ᵃ top כחוט של ש׳ as thin as a thread of the warp. Mikv. VI, 9 כותל … שנסדק לש׳ a wall … which is cracked lengthwise; a. fr.—ש׳ וערב crosswise, v. עֵרֶב.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H2060 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וַשְׁתִּ֑י | Noun, Proper | Esther 1:15 | 2 |
| וַשְׁתִּ֗י | Noun, Proper | Esther 1:12 | 2 |
| וַשְׁתִּ֣י | Noun, Proper | Esther 1:9 | 2 |
| וַשְׁתִּ֧י | Noun, Proper | Esther 1:11 | 2 |
| וַשְׁתִּֽי | Noun, Proper | Esther 2:17 | 1 |
| וַשְׁתִּי֙ | Noun, Proper | Esther 2:1 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Vashti). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Beautiful, the queen of Ahasuerus, who was deposed from her royal dignity because she refused to obey the king when he desired her to appear in the banqueting hall of Shushan the palace (Esther 1:10-12). (See ESTHER.)
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(beautiful), the "queen" of Ahasuerus, who, for refusing to show herself to the king's guests at the royal banquet, when sent for by the king, was repudiated and deposed. (Esther 1:1) ... (B.C. 483.) Many attempts have been made to identify her with historical personages; but it is far more probable that she was only one of the inferior wives, dignified with the title of queen, whose name has utterly disappeared from history.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
that drinks; thread
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 10 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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