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He adopted Esther in the Book of Esther
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mordecai
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Mordecai is one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther in the Hebrew Bible. Mordecai or Mordechai may also refer to: The Mordechai or Mordecai ben Hillel, major Talmudist and posek Kevin Fertig , American professional wrestler who used the ring ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, biblical cousin of Esther, from Hebrew Mordekhay, from Akkad. Marduk, chief god of the city of Babylon.
Usage examples of mordecai.
No pleasantries or amenities were offered to Clem, as he might have expected from a professional establishment, but the ways of normal businessmen were not the ways of Mordecai Malbon.
It was a miracle, some say, that Mordecai turned out as well as he did.
Crowder could completely close the door behind him, Mordecai grabbed the doorknob and thrust his head back inside.
In my George and Azazel stories, characters have been named Mordecai Sims, Gottlieb Jones, Menander Block, Hannibal West, and so on.
He nodded to Private Burton and Private Mordecai, replacements latterly detached to us, and who remained with us until my service was done.
I did permit them to unwind and to rewind the bandages, restoring to my sight the boy author of war, Samuel Mordecai, and the world he thought to write.
Sam Mordecai, I would not have been surprised to receive a letter from him, but nothing had arrived.
As, it occurred to me, Sam Mordecai, his pencil in hand, his notebook open, used the sights I showed him and, it also occurred to me, might go so far as to use the driven man in his open-mouthed mask.
In particular, he wanted religious freedom for Jews, as he had written earlier to a noted New York editor, Mordecai Noah, who had sent him a discourse delivered at the consecration of a synagogue in New York.