KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Esther 9:31–32
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Esther 9:31
31To 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 the fastings and their cry.
31To confirme these dayes of Purim, in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Iew, and Esther the Queene had enioyned them, and as they had decreed †for themselues and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
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Esther 9:32
32And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
32And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim, and it was written in the booke.
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DEFINED WORDS
Esther 9:31
To establish, ratify, or give assurance to words, a decree, covenant, promise, love, or testimony.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The appointed feast days commemorating the Jews' deliverance from Haman's plot.
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Fixed; set; established; decreed; ordained; constituted; allotted; Furnished; equipped with things necessary.
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Agreeing or corresponding; in conformity with; as stated, measured, or directed by.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A Hebrew or Israelite.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Ordered; directed; admonished with authority; commanded.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Determined judicially; resolved; appointed; established in purpose.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Subjects, affairs, causes, or things under consideration; also material substance, according to context.
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Periods or acts of abstaining from food.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Esther 9:32
An authoritative order, determination, or appointed rule; also to order or establish authoritatively.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Made firm, strengthened, established, ratified, or proved sure.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Subjects, affairs, causes, or things under consideration; also material substance, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The appointed feast days commemorating the Jews' deliverance from Haman's plot.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To write: to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 31
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Open the full verse study3And 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.
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Open the full verse study16Go, 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 the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
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Open the full verse study2Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
3So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.
4And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
5¶ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
6For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
7And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
8But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
9Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
From verse 32
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Open the full verse study26Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
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