Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H2238: זֶרֶשׁ

Zeresh · pronounced zeh'-resh · “Zeresh”

Definition

Zeresh, Haman's wife

KJV translates it as: Zeresh.

Word origin: of Persian origin;

Extended definition

A woman living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Est.5.10; married to Haman (H2001)
§ Zeresh = "gold"
the wife of Haman, the Agagite

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H2238 is translated

  • zeresh ×4

Bible verses with H2238 (Zeresh)

Zeresh appears in 3 verses.

  • Esther 5:10

    Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.

  • Esther 5:14

    Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

  • Esther 6:13

    And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.