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The Triumph of Mordecai by Pieter Lastman, 1624. Mordecai (/ ˈ m ɔːr d ɪ k aɪ, m ɔːr d ɪ ˈ k eɪ aɪ /; [1] also Mordechai; Hebrew: מָרְדֳּכַי, Modern: Mŏrdoḵay, Tiberian: Mārdoḵay, [a] IPA: [moʁdeˈχaj]) is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.
Tanner Mordecai (born November 8, 1999) is an American professional football quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners , SMU Mustangs and Wisconsin Badgers .
Mordecai Place Historic District (/ m ɔː r d ə ˈ k i /) [2] is a historic neighborhood and national historic district located at Raleigh, North Carolina.The district encompasses 182 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the most architecturally varied of Raleigh's early-20th century suburbs for the white middle-class.
The Mordecai House (also called the Mordecai Plantation or Mordecai Mansion), built in 1785, is a registered historical landmark and museum in Raleigh, North Carolina that is the centerpiece of Mordecai Historic Park, adjacent to the Historic Oakwood neighborhood. [2] It is the oldest residence in Raleigh on its original foundation. [3]
For example, the reader is to pronounce the names of the ten sons of Haman [45] in one breath, to indicate their simultaneous death. An additional custom that probably began in Medieval times is that the congregation recites aloud with the reader the verses Esther 2:5, Esther 8:15–16, and Esther 10:3, which relate the origin of Mordecai and ...
Mordecai rested in the courtyard one day and overheard these two eunuchs plotting to kill the king. He went on to inform the king through Esther, thus thwarting the plot.. The two conspirators were apprehended and impaled on poles, and Mordecai's service to the king was recorded in the royal chronic
Mordecai tells Esther, who tells the king in the name of Mordecai, and he is saved. This act of great service to the king is recorded in the Annals of the Kingdom. After Mordecai saves the king's life, Haman the Agagite is made Ahasuerus' highest adviser, and orders that everyone bow down to him.
His father, Mordecai, was a poultry dealer in the Morea. During the wars between Turkey and Venice, Smyrna became the center of Levantine trade, and Mordecai became the Smyrna agent of an English trading house, achieving some wealth in the process. [9] Following the prevailing Jewish custom of the time, Sabbatai's father had him study the Talmud.