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Mordecai

[mawr-di-kahy, mawr-di-key-ahy]

noun

  1. (in the Bible) the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman.

  2. a male given name.



Mordecai

1

/ ˈmɔːdəˌkaɪ, ˌmɔːdəˈkaɪ /

noun

  1. Old Testament the cousin of Esther who averted a massacre of the Jews (Esther 2–9)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Mordecai

2

/ ˌmɔːdəˈkaɪ, ˈmɔːdəˌkaɪ /

noun

  1. Old Testament the cousin of Esther who averted a massacre of the Jews (Esther 2–9)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Then, on third down, Wax shot a gap and had a strip sack of quarterback Tanner Mordecai.

Returning to Canada in the early 1970s, Kotcheff directed 1974’s adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” starring Richard Dreyfuss.

The secretly-Jewish Queen Esther and her cousin Mordecai foil Haman's plan when Esther reveals her Jewishness to her husband and convinces the king to spare her people from genocide.

From Salon

In the story of Esther, Mordecai entreats his niece to step into her Jewishness to prevent atrocities from happening.

From Salon

Then he heard Howard University President Mordecai Wyatt Johnson’s lecture on Mahatma Gandhi, whose conceptions of nonviolent protest as a “love-force,” along with Christian love, animated a transformative movement.

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