Bible Names

Bigthan: meaning of the name

Bigthan means “in the press; giving meat.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Bigthan in Hebrew and Greek

בִּגְתָן H904

Bigthân (big-thawn') — Bigthan or Bigthana, a eunuch of Xerxes

or בִּגְתָנָא; of similar derivation to H903 (בִּגְתָא);

Bigthan in Scripture

“Bigthan” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Esther 2:21

    In 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.