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title: זֶרֶשׁ — Zeresh · The Tanakh dictionary
description: זֶרֶשׁ (2238), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Zeresh. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# זֶרֶשׁ

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«זֶרֶשׁ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Zeresh** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 2238 · **BDB:** זֶ֫רֶשׁ

### Glosses

Zeresh (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Zeresh [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2238/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2238/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. wife of Haman Est 5:10, 14; 6:13(×2) (according to Opp Esth. 25 = Pers. zaris, Zend zairis, la dorée, cf. زررِشتَه aurum ductile, Vull ii. 128 b; JenVOJ, 1892, 64 comp. Elamit. goddess Kiriša).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «זֶרֶשׁ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2238/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Esther 5:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.10/)

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וַיִּתְאַפַּ֣ק הָמָ֔ן וַיָּב֖וֹא אֶל־בֵּית֑וֹ וַיִּשְׁלַ֛ח וַיָּבֵ֥א אֶת־אֹהֲבָ֖יו וְאֶת־זֶ֥רֶשׁ אִשְׁתּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and he.restrained.himself Haman and he.went to house his and he.sent and he.gathered (et) friends his and (et) Zeresh wife his

*JPS 1917:* Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife.

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[Esther 5:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.5.14/)

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וַתֹּ֣אמֶר לוֹ֩ זֶ֨רֶשׁ אִשְׁתּ֜וֹ וְכָל־אֹֽהֲבָ֗יו יַֽעֲשׂוּ־עֵץ֮ גָּבֹ֣הַּ חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים אַמָּה֒ וּבַבֹּ֣קֶר ׀ אֱמֹ֣ר לַמֶּ֗לֶךְ וְיִתְל֤וּ אֶֽת־מָרְדֳּכַי֙ עָלָ֔יו וּבֹֽא־עִם־הַמֶּ֥לֶךְ אֶלהַמִּשְׁתֶּ֖ה שָׂמֵ֑חַ וַיִּיטַ֧ב הַדָּבָ֛ר לִפְנֵ֥י הָמָ֖ן וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הָעֵֽץ׃פ

*Word for word:* and she.said to him Zeresh wife his and all friends his let.people.make a.gallows high fifty cubit\[s\] and in the morning speak to the king and people.will.hang (et) Mordecai on it and go with the king to the feast joyful and it.was.good the word before Haman and he.made the gallows

*JPS 1917:* Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him: 'Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon; then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet.' And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

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