Hebrew word · H4099
הַמְּדָתָא
hamedata'
Hammedatha
Appears 5 times in 5 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Est.3.1;
father of: Haman (H2001)
§ Hammedatha = "double"
father of Haman
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
Where it appears
Esther · 5
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Esther 3:1 הַמְּדָ֛תָא Hammedatha
After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.
Here: Haman's father. The name is probably Persian. A frequent suggestion is *Haumadāta, 'given by Haoma', but the derivation is uncertain.
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Esther 3:10 הַמְּדָ֛תָא Hammedatha
So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
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Esther 8:5 הַמְּדָ֙תָא֙ Hammedatha
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
Here: Haman's father. The name is probably Persian.
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Esther 9:10 הַמְּדָ֛תָא Hammedatha
They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
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Esther 9:24 הַמְּדָ֜תָא Hammedatha
For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.
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