Hammedatha
הַמְּדָתָאStrong’s H4099medata (me-da-ta)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Medata is the Hebrew word usually translated “hammedatha”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Est.3.1
How it's translated
- hammedatha 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 5
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 3:10And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
- Esther 8:5And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces:
- Esther 9:10The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
- Esther 9:24Because 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;
Hebrew dictionary
הַמְּדָתָא medata · Hammedatha
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Est.3.1; father of: Haman (H2001) § Hammedatha = "double" father of Haman
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.