Strong H4099הַמְּדָתָא
Hammedatha
- Transliteration
- medâthâ'
- Pronunciation
- med-aw-thaw'
- Morphology
- Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person
Definition
Of Persian origin;
{Medatha} the father of Haman. (Including the article.): - Hammedatha [includ. the article.]
{Medatha} the father of Haman. (Including the article.): - Hammedatha [includ. the article.]
Meaning of the name
Hammedatha = "double"
Detailed definition
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Est.3.1;
father of: Haman (H2001)
father of: Haman (H2001)
In the biblical story
Hammedatha
The father of Haman, the enemy of the Jews.
Hammedatha was the father of Haman, the Persian official who plotted to destroy the Jews in the book of Esther.
In the Bible
Strong H4099 appears in 5 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- hammedatha5
First verses
- Esther 3:1After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
- Esther 3:10And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
- Esther 8:5And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces:
- Esther 9:10The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
- Esther 9:24Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;