King James Version
Esther 4:2 in the King James Version says “And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.” — study this verse from Esther chapter 4 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.”
Esther 4:2 · KJV
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. many: Heb. sackcloth and ashes were laid under many
So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not. chamberlains: Heb. eunuchs
KJV Study — Public Domain
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
“even before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“clothed”
H3830a garment (literally or figuratively); by implication (euphemistically) a wife
“with sackcloth”
H8242properly, a mesh (as allowing a liquid to run through), i.e., coarse loose cloth or sacking (used in mourning and for bagging); hence, a bag (for grai
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