17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Esther 9:17. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
How to read this study data
Source panels are separated by tradition and license. Imported or dataset-backed morphology is stronger than generated or rule-aligned morphology, and editorial alignment notes explain source-structure exceptions without pretending to be ancient source text.
When a verse uses different numbering in a source tradition, Spirit Nation may show the closest mapped source reference and label it directly on the panel.
Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
בְּיוֹם־שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה עָשָׂ֖ר לְחֹ֣דֶשׁ אֲדָ֑ר וְנ֗וֹחַ בְּאַרְבָּעָ֤ה עָשָׂר֙ בּ֔וֹ וְעָשֹׂ֣ה אֹת֔וֹ י֖וֹם מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה וְשִׂמְחָֽה׃
בְּיוֹם
שְׁלֹשָׁ֥ה
לְחֹ֣דֶשׁ
וְנ֗וֹחַ
בְּאַרְבָּעָ֤ה
בּ֔וֹ
- Lemma
- b
- Morphology
- Hebrew: preposition + suffix
- Part of Speech
- preposition
- Occurrences
- 1362
וְעָשֹׂ֣ה
אֹת֔וֹ
י֖וֹם
מִשְׁתֶּ֥ה
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܒܬܠܬܥܣܪܐ ܒܐܝܪܚ ܐܕܪ܆ ܘܐܬܬܢܝܚܘ ܒܐܪ̈ܒܥܣܪܐ ܒܗ ܒܝܪܚܐ.
ܒܬܠܬܥܣܪܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܬܠܬܥܣܪܐ
- Transliteration
- btlt'sr'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 10
ܒܐܝܪܚ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܐܝܪܚ
- Transliteration
- b'yrh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 7
ܐܕܪ܆
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܕܪ
- Transliteration
- 'dr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 10
ܘܐܬܬܢܝܚܘ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܐܬܬܢܝܚܘ
- Transliteration
- w'ttnyhw
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 4
ܒܐܪ̈ܒܥܣܪܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܐܪܒܥܣܪܐ
- Transliteration
- b'rb'sr'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 11
ܒܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܗ
- Transliteration
- bh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 571
ܒܝܪܚܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܝܪܚܐ
- Transliteration
- byrh'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 108
Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.
Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.
בְּיוֹם תְּלַת עַסְרֵי לְיֶרַח אֲדָר הֲוָה קְטוֹל בְּזַרְעִית דַעֲמָלֵק וּנְיָיחָא הֲוָה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל בְּאַרְבַּע עֲשַׂר בֵּיהּ וּמֶעְבַּד יָתֵיהּ יוֹם מִשְׁתַּיָא וְחֶדְוָא׃
בְּיוֹם
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יום
- Transliteration
- bywm
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 899
תְּלַת
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- תלת
- Transliteration
- tlt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 149
עַסְרֵי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עסרי
- Transliteration
- 'sry
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 66
לְיֶרַח
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ירח
- Transliteration
- lyrch
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 30
אֲדָר
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אדר
- Transliteration
- 'dr
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 16
הֲוָה
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- הוה
- Transliteration
- hwh
- Morphology
- verbal root הוה
- Gloss
- was, became, happened
- Occurrences
- 1114
קְטוֹל
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- קטול
- Transliteration
- qtwl
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 64
בְּזַרְעִית
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- זרעית
- Transliteration
- bzr'yt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 50
דַעֲמָלֵק
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עמלק
- Transliteration
- d'mlq
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 33
וּנְיָיחָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- נייחא
- Transliteration
- wnyych'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 1
הֲוָה
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- הוה
- Transliteration
- hwh
- Morphology
- verbal root הוה
- Gloss
- was, became, happened
- Occurrences
- 1114
לְיִשְׂרָאֵל
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- ישראל
- Transliteration
- lyshr'l
- Morphology
- prefixed preposition ל + proper noun
- Gloss
- to/for Israel
- Occurrences
- 2312
בְּאַרְבַּע
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ארבע
- Transliteration
- b'rb'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 114
עֲשַׂר
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עשר
- Transliteration
- 'shr
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 32
בֵּיהּ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ביה
- Transliteration
- byh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 359
וּמֶעְבַּד
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- מעבד
- Transliteration
- wm'bd
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 278
יָתֵיהּ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יתיה
- Transliteration
- ytyh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 381
יוֹם
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יום
- Transliteration
- ywm
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 899
מִשְׁתַּיָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- שתיא
- Transliteration
- mshty'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 25
וְחֶדְוָא׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- חדוא
- Transliteration
- wchdw'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 57
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Dies autem tertiusdecimus mensis Adar primus apud omnes interfectionis fuit, et quartadecima die cædere desierunt. Quem constituerunt esse solemnem, ut in eo omni tempore deinceps vacarent epulis, gaudio, atque conviviis.
dies
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- dies
- Transliteration
- dies
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 2559
autem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- autem
- Transliteration
- autem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 5069
tertiusdecimus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- tertiusdecimus
- Transliteration
- tertiusdecimus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 1
mensis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- mensis
- Transliteration
- mensis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 302
adar
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- adar
- Transliteration
- adar
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 12
unus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- unus
- Transliteration
- unus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: numeral
- Occurrences
- 1077
apud
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- apud
- Transliteration
- apud
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Occurrences
- 300
omnes
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- omnis
- Transliteration
- omnes
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 5506
interfectionis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- interfectio
- Transliteration
- interfectionis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 17
fuit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- fuit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
quartodecimo
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- quartodecimus
- Transliteration
- quartodecimo
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 6
die
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- dies
- Transliteration
- die
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 2559
caedere
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- caedo
- Transliteration
- caedere
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 89
desierunt
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- desino
- Transliteration
- desierunt
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 25
quem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- qui
- Transliteration
- quem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 15011
constituerunt
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- constituo
- Transliteration
- constituerunt
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 313
esse
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- esse
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
sollemnem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sollemnis
- Transliteration
- sollemnem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 31
ut
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ut
- Transliteration
- ut
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: subordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 4533
in
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- in
- Transliteration
- in
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Gloss
- in
- Part of Speech
- preposition
- Definition
- in, into, among, on
- Etymology
- Latin preposition used with ablative for location or with accusative for motion.
- Occurrences
- 22264
eo
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- is
- Transliteration
- eo
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 17810
omni
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- omnis
- Transliteration
- omni
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 5506
deinceps
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- deinceps
- Transliteration
- deinceps
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 26
tempore
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- tempus
- Transliteration
- tempore
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 761
vacarent
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uaco
- Transliteration
- vacarent
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 18
epulis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- epulae
- Transliteration
- epulis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 15
gaudio
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- gaudium
- Transliteration
- gaudio
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 142
atque
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- atque
- Transliteration
- atque
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 755
conviviis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- conuiuium
- Transliteration
- conviviis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 67
These notes explain relevant source panels that are not shown for this verse because of source coverage, licensing, alternate traditions, or versification structure.
-
Greek LXX
alternate tradition
The current Greek Brenton source archive does not expose this as the same canonical book. Related Greek Esther/Ezra traditions are tracked under separate or alternate structures where available.
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Esther 9:1
Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it turned out that the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),
3 relevance votesEsther 9:21
to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,
3 relevance votesEsther 8:9
Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the local governors, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.
2 relevance votesEsther 9:18
But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
2 relevance votesEsther 3:12
Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.
2 relevance votes