king of Persia Original Word: אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁTransliteration: Achashverosh Phonetic Spelling: (akh-ash-vay-rosh') Short Definition: Ahasuerus
of foreign origin Definition king of Persia NASB Word Usage Ahasuerus (31). NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation All rights reserved Lockman.org
Or (shortened) pachashrosh {akh- ash-rosh'} (Esth. 10:1); of Persian origin; Achashverosh (i.e. Ahasuerus or Artaxerxes, but in this case Xerxes), the title (rather than name) of a Persian king -- Ahasuerus.
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