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Esther 4:1

“When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

מׇרְדְּכַיMordᵉkay · mor-dek-ah'-ee
H4782 · Hebrew

Definition: Mordecai, an Israelite
Derivation: of foreign derivation;
KJV renderings: Mordecai.
Grammar: וּ — conjunction
מָרְדֳּכַ֗י — proper noun
Code HC/Np
Usage: Occurs 60 times in the Hebrew Bible.Ezra 2:2 Nehemiah 7:7 Esther 2:5 Esther 2:7 Esther 2:10

Theological interpretation (AI)

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Verse 2

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.