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Esther 7:2

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So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.	And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What [is] thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what [is] thy request? and it shall be performed, [even] to the half of the kingdom.	Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And the king^H4428 said^H559 again unto Esther^H635 on the second^H8145 day^H3117 at the banquet^H4960 of wine^H3196, What is thy petition^H7596, queen^H4436 Esther^H635? and it shall be granted^H5414 thee: and what is thy request^H1246? and it shall be performed^H6213, even to the half^H2677 of the kingdom^H4438.

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Original Hebrew

וַיֹּאמֶר הַמֶּלֶךְ לְאֶסְתֵּר גַּם בַּיֹּום הַשֵּׁנִי בְּמִשְׁתֵּה הַיַּיִן מַה־שְּׁאֵלָתֵךְ אֶסְתֵּר הַמַּלְכָּה וְתִנָּתֵן לָךְ וּמַה־בַּקָּשָׁתֵךְ עַד־חֲצִי הַמַּלְכוּת וְתֵעָשׂ׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יֹּאמֶר֩	va/i.yo.Mer	H559	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ he said
הַ/מֶּ֨לֶךְ	ha./Me.lekh	H4428	HTd/Ncmsa	the/ king
לְ/אֶסְתֵּ֜ר	le./'es.Ter	H635	HR/Np	to/ Esther
גַּ֣ם	gam	H1571	HTa	also
בַּ/יּ֤וֹם	ba/i.Yom	H3117	HRd/Ncmsa	on the/ day
הַ/שֵּׁנִי֙	ha./she.Ni	H8145	HTd/Aomsa	(the)/ second
בְּ/מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה	be./mish.Teh	H4960	HR/Ncmsc	at/ (the) feast of
הַ/יַּ֔יִן	hai./Ya.yin	H3196	HTd/Ncmsa	(the)/ wine
מַה	mah-	H4100	HTi	what?
שְּׁאֵלָתֵ֛/ךְ	she.'e.la.Te/kh	H7596	HNcfsc/Sp2fs	(is) petition/ your
אֶסְתֵּ֥ר	'es.Ter	H635	HNp	O Esther
הַ/מַּלְכָּ֖ה	ha./mal.Kah	H4436	HTd/Ncfsa	the/ queen
וְ/תִנָּ֣תֵֽן	ve./ti.Na.ten	H5414	HC/VNi3fs	so/ it may be given
לָ֑/ךְ	La/kh		HR/Sp2fs	to/ you
וּ/מַה	u./mah-	H4100	HC/Ti	and/ what?
בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֛/ךְ	ba.ka.sha.Te/kh	H1246	HNcfsc/Sp2fs	(is) request/ your
עַד	'ad-	H5704	HR	up to
חֲצִ֥י	cha.Tzi	H2677	HNcmsc	(the) half of
הַ/מַּלְכ֖וּת	ha./mal.Khut	H4438	HTd/Ncfsa	the/ kingdom
וְ/תֵעָֽשׂ	ve./te.'As	H6213	HC/VNj3fs	and/ it may be done

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H559 — אָמַר (ʼâmar, aw-mar'): a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude); answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet.
• H635 — אֶסְתֵּר (ʼEçtêr, es-tare'): of Persian derivation; Ester, the Jewish heroine; Esther.
• H1246 — בַּקָּשָׁה (baqqâshâh, bak-kaw-shaw'): from בָּקַשׁ; a petition; request.
• H2677 — חֵצִי (chêtsîy, khay-tsee'): from חָצָהlemma חָעָה ayin, corrected to חָצָה; the half or middle; half, middle, mid(-night), midst, part, two parts.
• H3117 — יוֹם (yôwm, yome): from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb); age, [phrase] always, [phrase] chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), [phrase] elder, [idiom] end, [phrase] evening, [phrase] (for) ever(-lasting, -more), [idiom] full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, [phrase] old, [phrase] outlived, [phrase] perpetually, presently, [phrase] remaineth, [idiom] required, season, [idiom] since, space, then, (process of) time, [phrase] as at other times, [phrase] in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), [idiom] whole ([phrase] age), (full) year(-ly), [phrase] younger.
• H3196 — יַיִן (yayin, yah'-yin): from an unused root meaning to effervesce; wine (as fermented); by implication, intoxication; banqueting, wine, wine(-bibber).
• H4428 — מֶלֶךְ (melek, meh'-lek): from מָלַךְ; a king; king, royal.
• H4436 — מַלְכָּה (malkâh, mal-kaw'): feminine of מֶלֶךְ; a queen; queen.
• H4438 — מַלְכוּת (malkûwth, mal-kooth'): or מַלְכֻת; or (in plural) מַלְכֻיָּה; from מָלַךְ; a rule; concretely, a dominion; empire, kingdom, realm, reign, royal.
• H4960 — מִשְׁתֶּה (mishteh, mish-teh'): from שָׁתָה; drink, by implication, drinking (the act); also (by implication) a banquet or (generally) feast; banquet, drank, drink, feast((-ed), -ing).
• H5414 — נָתַן (nâthan, naw-than'): a primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.); add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, [idiom] avenge, [idiom] be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, [phrase] cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, [idiom] doubtless, [idiom] without fail, fasten, frame, [idiom] get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), [idiom] have, [idiom] indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), [phrase] lie, lift up, make, [phrase] O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, [idiom] pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), [phrase] sing, [phrase] slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, [idiom] surely, [idiom] take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, [phrase] weep, [phrase] willingly, [phrase] withdraw, [phrase] would (to) God, yield.
• H6213 — עָשָׂה (ʻâsâh, aw-saw'): a primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application; accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, [idiom] certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, [phrase] displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, [phrase] feast, (fight-) ing man, [phrase] finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, [phrase] hinder, hold (a feast), [idiom] indeed, [phrase] be industrious, [phrase] journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, [phrase] officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, [idiom] sacrifice, serve, set, shew, [idiom] sin, spend, [idiom] surely, take, [idiom] thoroughly, trim, [idiom] very, [phrase] vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.
• H7596 — שְׁאֵלָה (shᵉʼêlâh, sheh-ay-law'): or שֵׁלָה; (1 Samuel 1:17), from שָׁאַל; a petition; by implication, a loan; loan, petition, request.
• H8145 — שֵׁנִי (shênîy, shay-nee'): from שָׁנָה; properly, double, i.e. second; also adverbially, again; again, either (of them), (an-) other, second (time).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H1571 — גַּם (gam, gam): by contraction from an unused root meaning to gather; properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and; again, alike, also, (so much) as (soon), both (so)...and, but, either...or, even, for all, (in) likewise (manner), moreover, nay...neither, one, then(-refore), though, what, with, yea.
• H4100 — מָה (mâh, maw): or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses; how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
• H5704 — עַד (ʻad, ad): properly, the same as עַד (used as a preposition, adverb or conjunction; especially with a preposition); as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with); against, and, as, at, before, by (that), even (to), for(-asmuch as), (hither-) to, [phrase] how long, into, as long (much) as, (so) that, till, toward, until, when, while, ([phrase] as) yet.

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