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Esther 4:3

And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

KJV

In omnibus quoque provinciis, oppidis, ac locis, ad quæ crudele regis dogma pervenerat, planctus ingens erat apud Judæos, jejunium, ululatus, et fletus, sacco et cinere multis pro strato utentibus.

Vulgate

καὶ ἐν πάσῃ χώρᾳ οὗ ἐξετίθετο τὰ γράμματα κραυγὴ καὶ κοπετὸς καὶ πένθος μέγα τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις, σάκκον καὶ σποδὸν ἔστρωσαν ἑαυτοῖς.

LXX

And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

ASV

וּ/בְ/כָל מְדִינָ֣ה וּ/מְדִינָ֗ה מְקוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁ֨ר דְּבַר הַ/מֶּ֤לֶךְ וְ/דָת/וֹ֙ מַגִּ֔יעַ אֵ֤בֶל גָּדוֹל֙ לַ/יְּהוּדִ֔ים וְ/צ֥וֹם וּ/בְכִ֖י וּ/מִסְפֵּ֑ד שַׂ֣ק וָ/אֵ֔פֶר יֻצַּ֖ע לָֽ/רַבִּֽים

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

18 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֵ֖בֶל
'bl
noun · 24×
אֵֽפֶר
'pr
noun · 21×
בְכִ֖י
bky
noun · 28×
גָּד֖וֹל
gdvl
verb · 528×
דְבַר
dbr
noun · 1449×
דָּ֖ת
dt
noun · 22×
וֹ
v
noun · 398×
יֻצַּ֖ע
yts'
verb · 4×
יְּהוּדִ֔ים
yhvdym
noun · 79×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
מִסְפֵּ֑ד
mspd
noun · 14×
מֶֽלֶךְ
mlk
noun · 2518×
מְּדִינ֑וֹת
mdynvt
noun · 53×
נֹּגֵ֥עַ
ng'
verb · 149×
צ֣וֹם
tsvm
noun · 26×
רַב
rb
verb · 458×
שַׂקִּ֔ים
shqym
noun · 48×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Dan 9:3 — And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
  • Esth 3:12 — Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that wer
  • Esth 4:6 — So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king’s gate.
  • Esth 4:16 — Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto
  • Esth 9:31 — To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of
  • Isa 22:4 — Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
  • Isa 22:12 — And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
  • Isa 37:1 — And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
  • Isa 58:5 — Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acce
  • Isa 58:5 — Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acce