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הֲנָחָה

ha.na.chah

holiday

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Strong’s H2010Noun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

a holiday1

In the text

Esther 2:18וַהֲנָחָה
Then the king held a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his officials and servants. He proclaimed a tax holiday in the provinces and gave gifts worthy of the king’s bounty.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

הֲנָחָה n.f. a giving of rest, i.e. perh. holiday-making;—Est 2:18

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.