Esther 2:8-11

2:8

Hegai ................ Hegai <01896> [Hegai.]

One of Dr. Kennicott's MSS., instead of Hegai has Heg‚, as in ver. 3.

2:9

found <05375> [she obtained.]

cosmetics <08562> [her her things.]

rations <04490> [such things. Heb. her portions. preferred her. Heb. changed her.]

2:10

disclosed <05046> [had not shewed.]

Mordecai <04782> [for Mordecai.]

2:11

Mordecai <04782> [Mordecai.]

The apartments of the women are accounted so inviolable, that it is even a crime to enquire what passes within their walls. A man, says Chardin, may walk a hundred days, one after the other, by the house where the women are, and yet know no more what is done there than at the farther end of Tartary. This sufficiently explains the conduct of Mordecai.

walk <01980> [walked.]

Esther <0635 07965> [how Esther did. Heb. the peace of Esther.]