# אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ (achashverosh) Israeli respelling: a-chash-verosh. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H325. 30 Old Testament occurrences. Achashverosh (i.e. Ahasuerus or Artaxerxes, but in this case Xerxes), the title (rather than name) of a Persian king King James renderings: Ahasuerus. Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/achashverosh-h325 ## Occurrences - [Ezra 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/4/6) — And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusa… - [Esther 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/1/1) — Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven an… - [Esther 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/1/2) — That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace, - [Esther 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/1/9) — Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus. - [Esther 1:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/1/10) — On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and… - [Esther 1:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/1/15) — What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chambe… - [Esther 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/1/16) — And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, a… - [Esther 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/1/17) — For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be repo… - [Esther 1:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/1/19) — If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that… - [Esther 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/2/1) — After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed agains… - [Esther 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/2/12) — Now when every maid’s turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women… - [Esther 2:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/2/16) — So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reig… - [Esther 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/2/21) — In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, wer… - [Esther 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/1) — After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the pri… - [Esther 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/6) — And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all… - [Esther 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/7) — In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day… - [Esther 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/8) — And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy k… - [Esther 3:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/12) — Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had command… - [Esther 6:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/6/2) — And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sough… - [Esther 7:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/7/5) — Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so? - [Esther 8:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/8/1) — On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews’ enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Es… - [Esther 8:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/8/7) — Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they ha… - [Esther 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/8/10) — And he wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, and riders on mules,… - [Esther 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/8/12) — Upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. - [Esther 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/2) — The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought the… - [Esther 9:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/20) — And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far, - [Esther 9:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/9/30) — And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and t… - [Esther 10:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/10/1) — And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea. - [Esther 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/10/3) — For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wea… - [Daniel 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/9/1) — In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;