Strong's #4782: Mordkay (pronounced mor-dek-ah'-ee)
of foreign derivation; Mordecai, an Israelite:--Mordecai.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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mordekay
Mordecai = "little man" or "worshipper of Mars"
1) cousin and adoptive father of queen Esther; son of Jair of the tribe of Benjamin; deliverer under Divine providence of the children of Israel from the destruction plotted by Haman the chief minister of Ahasuerus; institutor of the feast of Purim
2) a Jew who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
Part of Speech: noun proper masculine
Relation: of foreign derivation
Usage:
This word is used 60 times:
Esther 8:15: " And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue"
Esther 9:3: "the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon"
Esther 9:4: "For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all"
Esther 9:4: "the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater."
Esther 9:20: " And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto"
Esther 9:23: "as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto"
Esther 9:29: "the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all"
Esther 9:31: "of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined"
Esther 10:2: "and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they"
Esther 10:3: "For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews,"
