Esther 9:23
Strong's Lexicon
So the Jews
הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים (hay·yə·hū·ḏîm)
Article | Noun - proper - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3064: 1) Jew

agreed to continue
וְקִבֵּל֙ (wə·qib·bêl)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6901: 1) to take, receive, be before 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to take, choose, receive 1a2) to accept 1a3) to accept, assume 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to show oppositeness 1b2) to correspond, receive one to the other

the custom
לַעֲשׂ֑וֹת (la·‘ă·śō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 6213: 1) to do, fashion, accomplish, make 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to do, work, make, produce 1a1a) to do 1a1b) to work 1a1c) to deal (with) 1a1d) to act, act with effect, effect 1a2) to make 1a2a) to make 1a2b) to produce 1a2c) to prepare 1a2d) to make (an offering) 1a2e) to attend to, put in order 1a2f) to observe, celebrate 1a2g) to acquire (property) 1a2h) to appoint, ordain, institute 1a2i) to bring about 1a2j) to use 1a2k) to spend, pass 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be done 1b2) to be made 1b3) to be produced 1b4) to be offered 1b5) to be observed 1b6) to be used 1c) (Pual) to be made 2) (Piel) to press, squeeze

they had started,
הֵחֵ֖לּוּ (hê·ḥêl·lū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2490: 1) to profane, defile, pollute, desecrate, begin 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to profane oneself, defile oneself, pollute oneself 1a1a) ritually 1a1b) sexually 1a2) to be polluted, be defiled 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to profane, make common, defile, pollute 1b2) to violate the honour of, dishonour 1b3) to violate (a covenant) 1b4) to treat as common 1c) (Pual) to profane (name of God) 1d) (Hiphil) 1d1) to let be profaned 1d2) to begin 1e) (Hophal) to be begun 2) to wound (fatally), bore through, pierce, bore 2a) (Qal) to pierce 2b) (Pual) to be slain 2c) (Poel) to wound, pierce 2d) (Poal) to be wounded 3) (Piel) to play the flute or pipe

as
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: 1) (relative part.) 1a) which, who 1b) that which 2) (conj) 2a) that (in obj clause) 2b) when 2c) since 2d) as 2e) conditional if

Mordecai
מָרְדֳּכַ֖י (mā·rə·do·ḵay)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4782: 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

had written
כָּתַ֥ב (kā·ṯaḇ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3789: 1) to write, record, enrol 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on 1a2) to write down, describe in writing 1a3) to register, enrol, record 1a4) to decree 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be written 1b2) to be written down, be recorded, be enrolled 1c) (Piel) to continue writing

to them.
אֲלֵיהֶֽם׃ (’ă·lê·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 413: 1) to, toward, unto (of motion) 2) into (limit is actually entered) 2a) in among 3) toward (of direction, not necessarily physical motion) 4) against (motion or direction of a hostile character) 5) in addition to, to 6) concerning, in regard to, in reference to, on account of 7) according to (rule or standard) 8) at, by, against (of one's presence) 9) in between, in within, to within, unto (idea of motion to)

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.

Young's Literal Translation
And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So the Jews agreed to continue the practice they had begun, as Mordecai had written them to do.

New American Standard Bible
Thus the Jews undertook what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.

King James Bible
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
Parallel Verses
New International Version
So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them.

New Living Translation
So the Jews accepted Mordecai's proposal and adopted this annual custom.

English Standard Version
So the Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.

New American Standard Bible
Thus the Jews undertook what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.

King James Bible
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So the Jews agreed to continue the practice they had begun, as Mordecai had written them to do.

International Standard Version
So the Jewish people made a tradition out of what they had begun to do and of what Mordecai had written to them,

NET Bible
So the Jews committed themselves to continue what they had begun to do and to what Mordecai had written to them.

American Standard Version
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

English Revised Version
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

Young's Literal Translation
And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,
















Cross References
Esther 9:22
As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

Esther 9:24
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

Esther 1:1
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)

Esther 9:21
To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

Esther 9:20
And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,

Esther 9:25
But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Esther 9:26
Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
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