Memucan
מְמוּכָןStrong’s H4462memukhan (me-mu-khan)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Memukhan is the Hebrew word usually translated “memucan”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king’s face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Est.1.14
How it's translated
- memucan 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Esther 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 1:16And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
- Esther 1:21And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
Hebrew dictionary
מְמוּכָן memukhan · Memucan
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Est.1.14 § Memucan = "dignified" one of the 7 princes of Persia in the reign of Ahasuerus
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.