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Strong's #325: 'Achashverowsh (pronounced akh-ash-vay-rosh')

or (shortened) pAchashrosh {akh- ash-rosh'} (Esth. 10:1); of Persian origin; Achashverosh (i.e. Ahasuerus or Artaxerxes, but in this case Xerxes), the title (rather than name) of a Persian king:--Ahasuerus.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁׁ / ׁׁ

'ăchashvêrôsh / 'achashrôsh

Ahasuerus = "I will be silent and poor"

1) title of the king of Persia, probably Xerxes

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: of Persian origin



Usage:

This word is used 31 times:

Ezra 4:6: "And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants"
Esther 1:1: "Now it came to pass of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India"
Esther 1:1: "of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto"
Esther 1:2: "That in those when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom,"
Esther 1:9: "house which belonged to king Ahasuerus."
Esther 1:10: "that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,"
Esther 1:15: "performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?"
Esther 1:16: "are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus."
Esther 1:17: "in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen"
Esther 1:19: "Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give"
Esther 2:1: "things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti,"
Esther 2:12: "was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been"
Esther 2:16: "unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth"
Esther 2:21: "and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus."
Esther 3:1: "things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son"
Esther 3:6: "that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai."
Esther 3:7: "in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that"
Esther 3:8: "And Haman unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad"
Esther 3:12: "of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king"
Esther 6:2: "sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus."
Esther 7:5: "Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he,"
Esther 8:1: "On that did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman"
Esther 8:7: "Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold,"
Esther 8:10: "And he wrote Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the king's ring, and sent"
Esther 8:12: "in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth"
Esther 9:2: "throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt:"
Esther 9:20: "were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,"
Esther 9:30: "and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,"
Esther 10:1: "And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea."
Esther 10:3: "the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude"
Daniel 9:1: "of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which"









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