What Does Esther 5:14 Mean in the King James?

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

Esther 5:14 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The Hebrew word for “thing” is davar, which also means “word”: the deadly proposal is already moving from speech toward a made object.

THE MEANING

A circle makes cruelty sound like a clever plan and pairs it with celebration. Haman’s pleasure shows how approval can disguise violence as success, while the built stake gives that shared intention a physical form.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lie is that a plan becomes good because influential people approve it or because the person carrying it out expects to celebrate.

THE ROOT

הַדָּבָר

hadavar

GROWS FROM

דבר

d-b-r

To speak; as a noun, a word, matter, or thing.

The word translated “thing” is davar, which can mean a word, a matter, or a thing; the related verb dibber means “to speak.” Here, a proposal about Mordecai’s death wins approval and is immediately made into wood and height: spoken intention takes shape.

ALSO GROWS

davar: Word, matter, or thing.

דָּבָר

The proposal is called a davar, joining what is said with the matter that is about to be made.

dibber: Spoke; to speak.

דִּבֵּר

This verbal form shares the same root, linking spoken intention to the “thing” Haman has built.

THE PATTERN

Harm deliberately prepared for another can return upon the one who prepares it.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

Esther 7:10 · KJVThe instrument prepared for Mordecai becomes the instrument of Haman’s death.

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

Proverbs 26:27 · KJVThe image makes the intended harm return to the person who set it in motion.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Galatians 6:7 · KJVWhat a person sets in motion comes back as its harvest.

THE THREAD

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

Esther 7:10 · KJV

The same instrument Haman prepares becomes his own instrument of death. That reversal makes his cheerful confidence unstable: the object meant to secure his triumph carries the ending he intends for Mordecai.

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