Strong’s H904 · Hebrew
בִּגְתָן
Bigthân · big-thawn'
Origin or בִּגְתָנָא; of similar derivation to בִּגְתָא (H903);
Meaning Bigthan or Bigthana, a eunuch of Xerxes
In the King James Version Bigthan, Bigthana.
In 2 verses of the King James Version
- Esther 2:21In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
- Esther 6:2And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.