Esther 7:2

And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
king	הַמֶּ֨לֶךְ ha.Me.lekh	H4428	a king · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
said	וַיֹּאמֶר֩ vai.yo.Mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Esther	לְאֶסְתֵּ֜ר le.'es.Ter	H635	Ester · preposition + proper noun, a woman's name
second	הַשֵּׁנִי֙ ha.she.Ni	H8145	properly · definite article + ordinal number, masculine singular absolute
day	בַּיּ֤וֹם bai.Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
banquet	בְּמִשְׁתֵּ֣ה be.mish.Teh	H4960	drink · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
wine	הַיַּ֔יִן hai.Ya.yin	H3196	wine (as fermented) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
petition	שְּׁאֵלָתֵ֛ךְ she.'e.la.Tekh	H7596	a petition · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
queen	הַמַּלְכָּ֖ה ha.mal.Kah	H4436	a queen · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
Esther	אֶסְתֵּ֥ר 'es.Ter	H635	Ester · proper noun, a woman's name
granted	וְתִנָּ֣תֵֽן ve.ti.Na.ten	H5414	to give · conjunction + verb, niphal, 3rd person feminine singular
request	בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֛ךְ ba.ka.sha.Tekh	H1246	a petition · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person feminine singular
performed	וְתֵעָֽשׂ ve.te.'As	H6213	to do or make · conjunction + verb, niphal jussive, 3rd person feminine singular
half	חֲצִ֥י cha.Tzi	H2677	the half or middle · noun, common masculine singular construct
kingdom	הַמַּלְכ֖וּת ha.mal.Khut	H4438	a rule · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

John 16:24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Esther 5:3 Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? and what is thy request? it shall be even given thee to the half of the kingdom.
Esther 9:12 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman…
Esther 5:6 And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to t…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Esther 7:1-6

The king in humour, and Haman out of humour, meet at Esther's table. Now, I. The king urged Esther, a third time, to tell him what her request was, for he longed to know, and repeated his promise that it should be granted, Est 7:2. If the king had now forgotten that Esther had an errand to him, and had not again asked what it was, she could scarcely have known how to renew it herself; but he was mindful of it, and now was bound with the threefold cord of a promise thrice made to favour her. II. Esther, at length, surprises the king with a petition, not for wealth or honour, or the preferment of some of her friends to some high post, which the king expected, but for the preservation of hersel…

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Adam Clarke on Esther 7:2

At the banquet of wine - Postquam vino incaluerat, after he had been heated with wine, says the Vulgate. In such a state the king was more likely to come into the measures of the queen.

John Gill on Esther 7:2

And the king said again to Esther on the second day, at the banquet of wine,.... This was the third time he put the following question to her, being very desirous of knowing what she had to ask of him; and it was of God that this was kept upon his mind, and he was moved to solicit her petition, or otherwise it would not have been so easy for her to have introduced it: what is thy petition, Queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of my kingdom; see Esther 5:3.

Keil & Delitzsch on Esther 7:1-6

The king and Haman came to drink (לשׁתּות), i.e., to partake of the משׁתּה, in the queen's apartment. Est 7:2-4 At this banquet of wine the king asked again on the second day, as he had done on the first (Est 5:6): What is thy petition, Queen Esther, etc.? Esther then took courage to express her petition. After the usual introductory phrases (Est 7:3 like Est 5:8), she replied: "Let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request." For, she adds as a justification and reason for such a petition, "we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had been silent, for the enemy is not worth the king's…

Dictionary and topics

Banquet — A feast provided for the entertainment of a company of guests (Esther 5; 7; 1 Pet. 4:3); such as was provided for our Lord by his friends in Bethany (Matt. 26:6; Mark 14:3; comp. John 12:2). These…
Esther — The queen of Ahasuerus, and heroine of the book that bears her name. She was a Jewess named Hadas’sah (the myrtle), but when she entered the royal harem she received the name by which she henceforth…
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Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).