Strongs Number: H4782
- Hebrew Word
- מׇרְדְּכַי
- Transliteration
- Mordᵉkay
- Phonetic
- mor-dek-ah'-ee
- Part of Speech
- Proper Name Masculine
- Strongs Definition
-
{Mordecai} an Israelite
- BDB Definition
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Mordecai = "little man" or "worshipper of Mars"
1. cousin and adoptive father of queen Esther; son of Jair of the tribe of Benjamin; deliverer under Divine providence of the children of Israel from the destruction plotted by Haman the chief minister of Ahasuerus; institutor of the feast of Purim
2. a Jew who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
- Origin
- Of foreign derivation
- Bible Usage
- Mordecai.