Strong's #3982: ma'amar (pronounced mah-am-ar')
from 559; something (authoritatively) said, i.e. an edict:--commandment, decree.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
ma'ămar
1) word, command
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from H559
Usage:
This word is used 3 times:
Esther 1:15: "because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by"
Esther 2:20: "her: did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up"
Esther 9:32: " And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book."