Bible Names

Mordecai: meaning of the name

Mordecai means “contrition; bitter; bruising.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Mordecai in Hebrew and Greek

מׇרְדְּכַי H4782

Mordᵉkay (mor-dek-ah'-ee) — Mordecai, an Israelite

of foreign derivation;

People named Mordecai in the Bible

Mordecai in Scripture

“Mordecai” appears in 52 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Ezra 2:2

    Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

  • Nehemiah 7:7

    Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;

  • Esther 2:5

    Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

  • Esther 2:7

    And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

  • Esther 2:10

    Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.

  • Esther 2:11

    And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

  • Esther 2:15

    Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

  • Esther 2:19

    And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king’s gate.