Esther 7:5

Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
king	הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ ha.Me.lekh	H4428	a king · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
Ahasuerus	אֲחַשְׁוֵר֔וֹשׁ 'a.chash.ve.Ro.osh	H325	Achashverosh (i.e. Ahasuerus or Artaxerxes · proper noun, a man's name
answered	וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
said	וַיֹּ֖אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Esther	לְאֶסְתֵּ֣ר le.'es.Ter	H635	Ester · preposition + proper noun, a woman's name
queen	הַמַּלְכָּ֑ה ha.mal.Kah	H4436	a queen · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
presume	מְלָא֥וֹ me.la.'O	H4390	to fill or (intransitively) be full of · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
heart	לִבּ֖וֹ li.Bo	H3820	the heart · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
do	לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת la.'a.Sot	H6213	to do or make · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct

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

Genesis 27:33 And Isaac trembled very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before t…
Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
Acts 5:3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

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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 7:5

Who is he, and where is he - There is a wonderful abruptness and confusion in the original words, highly expressive of the state of mind in which the king then was: מי הוא זה ואי זה הוא אשר מלאו לבו לעשות כן mi hu zeh veey zeh hu asher melao libbo laasoth ken. "Who? He? This one? And where? This one? He? Who hath filled his heart to do thus?" He was at once struck with the horrible nature of a conspiracy so cruel and diabolic.

John Gill on Esther 7:5

Then the King Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen,.... The words in the original text lie thus, "and the King Ahasuerus said, and he said to Esther the queen"; which doubling of the word does not signify, as Jarchi suggests, that before he spoke to her by a messenger, or middle person, but, now he knew she was of a royal family, he spoke to her himself; but it is expressive of the ruffle of his mind, and the wrath and fury he was in, that he said it again and again, with a stern countenance and great vehemence of speech: who is he? and where is he? who is the man? and where does he live? that durst presume in his heart to do so; that has boldness, impudence, and courage enoug…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Esther 7:1-6

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).

Esther 7:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Esther 7:1-6

Adam Clarke on Esther 7:5

John Gill on Esther 7:5

Keil & Delitzsch on Esther 7:1-6

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Esther 7:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Esther 7:1-6

Adam Clarke on Esther 7:5

John Gill on Esther 7:5

Keil & Delitzsch on Esther 7:1-6

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Esther 7:5

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