Person

Mordecai

Mordekhay

מָרְדֳּכַי

Perhaps related to Marduk. Cousin and guardian of Esther.

Mordecai raises Esther and refuses to bow to Haman. He is later honored in the gate of the king.

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מׇרְדְּכַי H4782

Mordᵉkay · mor-dek-ah'-ee

Mordecai, an Israelite

of foreign derivation;

KJV glosses: Mordecai.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.

מָרְּדֳּכַי H4782

Biblical Hebrew

מָרְּדֳּכַי (van d. H. מָרְדְּכַי) proper name, masculine Mordecai (perhaps from n.div. Marduk (מְרֹרַךְ), ZimZAW xi.161 ff.; compare further Wild (citing Jensen)Comm. Est. 173 f.); — ׳מ Ezra 2:2; Esth 2:5 +; מָרְדֳּכָ֑י Esth 2:22 +; — 1. companion of Zerubbabel, according to Ezra 2:2 = Neh 7:7. ᵐ5 Μαραθχαιος, Μαρδοχαιος, etc:

2. cousin and adoptive father of Esther Esth 2:5; Esth 2:7; Esth 2:10 + 55 t. Esther. ᵐ5 Μαρδοχαιος.

מֻרְדָּף see רדף, רדה.