Memukhan מְמוּכָן
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| מְמוּכָן | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | memukhan |
| Strong's number | H4462 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | name of a man |
| Gloss | Memucan |
| Occurrences | 3 in 3 verses |
Memukhan (Hebrew מְמוּכָן, Strong's H4462) is a name of a man in the Old Testament, glossed “Memucan”. It occurs 3 times.
Definition
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Est.1.14
§ Memucan = "dignified"
one of the 7 princes of Persia in the reign of Ahasuerus
§ Memucan = "dignified"
one of the 7 princes of Persia in the reign of Ahasuerus
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | memucan (3) |
|---|---|
| BSB | memucan (3) |
Verses
Every verse with Memukhan, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Esther
- Esther 1:14And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king’s face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)His closest advisors were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had personal access to the king and ranked highest in the kingdom.
- Esther 1:16And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes.
- Esther 1:21And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:The king and his princes were pleased with this counsel; so the king did as Memucan had advised.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).