The Meaning of Esther 1:9 Explained

Esther 1:9

KJV: Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

YLT: Also Vashti the queen hath made a banquet for women, in the royal house that the king Ahasuerus hath.

Darby: Also the queen Vashti made a feast for the women of the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

ASV: Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

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What is the context of Esther 1:9?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women [in] the royal house which [belonged] to king Ahasuerus.

What does Esther 1:9 Mean?

Context Summary

Esther 1:1-22 - Vashti's Noble Refusal

The book opens with a royal festival, which lasted for six months, Esther 1:1-9. Perhaps the princes came up from their governments to partake of it in rotation. It finished with a banquet, open to all the people who dwelt in Shushan, great and small. Whenever men are overcome with wine, there is grave peril for women. Coarseness, indelicacy, and impurity troop in at the door, which has been unlocked by the excess of wine. Who can tell the anguish which has been caused to women, children, and the dumb creation through the intemperance of man! Here is given a glimpse of a noble woman, who respected herself too highly to yield to a demand, wholly foreign to the customs of the time, which forbade women to appear in public. Of course the king was incensed, all the more so because he knew that he was in the wrong. He had command over 127 provinces, but he could not rule his own spirit, and the sense of moral weakness is always irritating. He consulted his counselors, who were only too glad to fall in with and humor the royal whims; they counseled that the divorce of Vashti was a public duty, for the repression of wife-insubordination throughout the empire. Men are not always to be trusted when they legislate about women, or in respect to their own dignity. When wine is in them they may be expected to say and do very stupid things. It has been truly said that every Ahasuerus had his Memucan, a man who was sycophant and parasite, who held his influence by humoring caprice and lust. [source]

Chapter Summary: Esther 1

¹ Xerxes makes royal feasts
¹⁰ Vashti, sent for, refuses to come
¹³ Xerxes, by the counsel of Memucan, puts away Vashti, and decrees men's sovereignty

What do the individual words in Esther 1:9 mean?

Also Vashti the Queen made a feast for the women [in] palace the royal which [belonged] to King Ahasuerus -

גַּ֚ם וַשְׁתִּ֣י הַמַּלְכָּ֔ה עָשְׂתָ֖ה מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה נָשִׁ֑ים בֵּ֚ית הַמַּלְכ֔וּת אֲשֶׁ֖ר לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ אֲחַשְׁוֵרֽוֹשׁ ס

גַּ֚ם	Also
Parse: Conjunction Root: גַּם Sense: also, even, indeed, moreover, yea.
וַשְׁתִּ֣י	Vashti
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: וַשְׁתִּי Sense: the queen, wife of Ahasuerus, whom he divorced for disobeying his orders.
הַמַּלְכָּ֔ה	the Queen
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular Root: מַלְכָּה Sense: queen.
עָשְׂתָ֖ה	made
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person feminine singular Root: עָשָׂה Sense: to do, fashion, accomplish, make.
מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה	a feast for
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct Root: מִשְׁתֶּה Sense: feast, drink, banquet.
נָשִׁ֑ים	the women
Parse: Noun, feminine plural Root: אִשָּׁה Sense: woman, wife, female.
בֵּ֚ית	[in] palace
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct Root: בַּיִת Sense: house.
הַמַּלְכ֔וּת	the royal
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular Root: מַלְכוּת Sense: royalty, royal power, reign, kingdom, sovereign power.
לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ	[belonged] to King
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Noun, masculine singular Root: מֶלֶךְ Sense: king.
אֲחַשְׁוֵרֽוֹשׁ	Ahasuerus
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular Root: אֲחַשְׁוֵרֹושׁ Sense: title of the king of Persia, probably Xerxes.
ס	-
Parse: Punctuation

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