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Young's Literal Translation

Esther 6:7

And Haman saith unto the king, `The man in whose honour the king hath delighted,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ambition;   Civil Service;   Mordecai;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Delight;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bigthan;   Esther;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Sathrabuzanes;   Shethar-Bozenai;   Sisinnes;   Tattenai;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Esther, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ahasuerus;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 30;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Haman told the king, “For the man the king wants to honor:
Hebrew Names Version
Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
King James Version
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
English Standard Version
And Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,
New Century Version
So he answered the king, "This is what you could do for the man you want very much to honor.
New English Translation
So Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king wishes to honor,
Amplified Bible
So Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king desires to honor,
New American Standard Bible
Therefore Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king desires to honor,
World English Bible
Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Haman answered the King, The man whome the King would honour,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Berean Standard Bible
And Haman told the king, "For the man whom the king is delighted to honor,
Contemporary English Version
So he replied, "Your Majesty, if you wish to honor a man,
Complete Jewish Bible
So Haman answered the king, "For a man the king wants to honor,
Darby Translation
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honour,
Easy-to-Read Version
So Haman answered the king, "Do this for the man the king loves to honor:
George Lamsa Translation
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Good News Translation
So he answered the king, "Have royal robes brought for this man—robes that you yourself wear. Have a royal ornament put on your own horse.
Lexham English Bible
So Haman said to the king, "For a man whom the king wishes to honor,
Literal Translation
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Aman sayde vnto the kynge: Let the man vnto whom the kynge wolde be glad to do worshippe, be broughte hither,
American Standard Version
And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor,
Bible in Basic English
And Haman, answering the king, said, For the man whom the king has delight in honouring,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Haman aunswered the king: Let the man whom the king pleaseth to bring vnto worship, be brought hither,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Haman said unto the king: 'For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
King James Version (1611)
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and he said to the king, As for the man whom the king wishes to honour,
English Revised Version
And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he answeride, The man, whom the kyng couetith to onoure,
Update Bible Version
And Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Webster's Bible Translation
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor,
New King James Version
And Haman answered the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,
New Living Translation
So he replied, "If the king wishes to honor someone,
New Life Bible
Then Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king wants to honor,
New Revised Standard
So Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king wishes to honor,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Haman said unto the king, - As touching the man in whose honour, the king, delighteth,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Answered: The man whom the king desireth to honour,
Revised Standard Version
and Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king desires to honor,

Contextual Overview

4 And the king saith, `Who [is] in the court?' -- and Haman hath come in to the outer court of the house of the king, to say to the king to hang Mordecai on the tree that he had prepared for him -- 5 and the servants of the king say unto him, `Lo, Haman is standing in the court;' and the king saith, `Let him come in.' 6 And Haman cometh in, and the king saith to him, `What -- to do with the man in whose honour the king hath delighted?' And Haman saith in his heart, `To whom doth the king delight to do honour more than myself?' 7 And Haman saith unto the king, `The man in whose honour the king hath delighted, 8 let them bring in royal clothing that the king hath put on himself, and a horse on which the king hath ridden, and that the royal crown be put on his head, 9 and to give the clothing and the horse into the hand of a man of the heads of the king, the chiefs, and they have clothed the man in whose honour the king hath delighted, and caused him to ride on the horse in a broad place of the city, and called before him: Thus it is done to the man in whose honour the king hath delighted.' 10 And the king saith to Haman, `Haste, take the clothing and the horse, as thou hast spoken, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting in the gate of the king; there doth not fall a thing of all that thou hast spoken.' 11 And Haman taketh the clothing, and the horse, and clothed Mordecai, and causeth him to ride in a broad place of the city, and calleth before him, `Thus it is done to the man in whose honour the king hath delighted.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whom the king: etc. Heb. in whose honour the king delighteth, Esther 6:9, Esther 6:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:42 - his ring

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it cometh to pass that mankind have begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,
Genesis 6:2
and sons of God see the daughters of men that they [are] fair, and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen.
Genesis 6:3
And Jehovah saith, `My Spirit doth not strive in man -- to the age; in their erring they [are] flesh:' and his days have been an hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:4
The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them -- they [are] the heroes, who, from of old, [are] the men of name.
Genesis 6:20
Of the fowl after its kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every [sort] they come in unto thee, to keep alive.
Genesis 6:22
And Noah doth according to all that God hath commanded him; so hath he done.
Psalms 37:20
But the wicked perish, and the enemies of Jehovah, As the preciousness of lambs, Have been consumed, In smoke they have been consumed.
Proverbs 10:27
The fear of Jehovah addeth days, And the years of the wicked are shortened.
Proverbs 16:4
All things hath Jehovah wrought for Himself, And also the wicked [worketh] for a day of evil.
Hosea 4:3
Therefore mourn doth the land, And weak is every dweller in it, With the beast of the field, And with the fowl of the heavens, And the fishes of the sea -- they are removed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Haman answered the king,.... At once, being very prompt to suggest the honours he hoped to have done to himself:

for the man whom the king delighteth to honour; let the following things be done.


 
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