Esther 1:12

Webster's Bible (1833)

But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the chamberlains: therefore was the king very angry, and his anger burned in him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתְּמָאֵ֞ן הַמַּלְכָּ֣ה וַשְׁתִּ֗י לָבוֹא֙ בִּדְבַ֣ר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּיַ֣ד הַסָּרִיסִ֑ים וַיִּקְצֹ֤ף הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ מְאֹ֔ד וַחֲמָת֖וֹ בָּעֲרָ֥ה בֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

But wattəmāʾēn the malkâ waštî to lāḇôʾ at dəḇar the meleḵ which by yaḏ the sārîsîm, and wayyiqṣōp̄ the meleḵ very, and ḥămāṯô bāʿărâ in him

Grammar Details

• *wattəmāʾēn*: qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd feminine singular - and she refused
• *malkâ*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the queen
• *waštî*: proper noun, feminine - Vashti
• *lāḇôʾ*: qal infinitive construct - to come
• *dəḇar*: masculine singular construct - word of
• *meleḵ*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the king
• *yaḏ*: feminine singular construct - hand of
• *sārîsîm*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the eunuchs
• *wayyiqṣōp̄*: qal imperfect consecutive, 3rd masculine singular - and he became angry
• *ḥămāṯô*: feminine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his wrath
• *bāʿărâ*: qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - it burned

Word Meanings

• *wattəmāʾēn*: and she refused/she declined/she was unwilling
• *dəḇar*: word/command/matter
• *wayyiqṣōp̄*: and he became angry/and he was furious/and he raged
• *ḥămāṯô* *bāʿărâ*: his wrath burned/his fury was kindled/his anger was ignited

Referenced Verses

• Prov 19:12 : 12 The king's wrath is like the roaring of a lion, But his favor is like dew on the grass.
• Prov 20:2 : 2 The terror of a king is like the roaring of a lion: He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.
• Dan 2:12 : 12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
• Dan 3:13 : 13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in [his] rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.
• Gen 3:16 : 16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."
• Exod 32:19 : 19 It happened, as soon as he came near to the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing: and Moses' anger grew hot, and he threw the tablets out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mountain.
• Exod 32:22 : 22 Aaron said, "Don't let the anger of my lord grow hot. You know the people, that they are set on evil.
• Deut 29:20 : 20 Yahweh will not pardon him, but then the anger of Yahweh and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie on him, and Yahweh will blot out his name from under the sky.
• Ps 74:1 : 1 > God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
• Ps 79:5 : 5 How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
• Nah 1:6 : 6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
• Eph 5:22 : 22 Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
• Eph 5:24 : 24 But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.
• 1 Pet 3:1 : 1 In like manner, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don't obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word;
• Rev 6:16-17 : 16 They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 for the great day of his wrath has come; and who is able to stand?"
• Dan 3:19 : 19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: [therefore] he spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was wont to be heated.