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בִּגְתָן

big.tan

Bigthan

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Strong’s H904Proper name, a person2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

bigthan1

bigthana1

In the text

Esther 2:21בִּגְתָן
In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the entrance, grew angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

בִּגְתָן n.pr.m. (gift of God?) a eunuch of Ahasuerus

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.