translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EST

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “to drink”; NASB “to drink wine.” The expression is a metaphor for lavish feasting, cf. NRSV “to feast”; KJV “to banquet.”


text: Heb “If I have found grace in your eyes” (so also in 8:5 ); TEV “If it please Your Majesty.”


label: NET textual note

text: The second occurrence of the Hebrew verb וַיּאמֶר ( vayyo ’ mer , “and he said”) in the MT should probably be disregarded. The repetition is unnecessary in the context and may be the result of dittography in the MT.


text: Heb “has so filled his heart”; NAB “who has dared to do this.”


text: Heb “for he saw that calamity was determined for him from the king”; NAB “the king had decided on his doom”; NRSV “the king had determined to destroy him.”


text: Heb “falling”; NAB, NRSV “had (+ just TEV) thrown himself (+ down TEV).”


text: Heb “where Esther was” (so KJV, NASB). The term “lying” has been supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons; cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV, NLT “was reclining.”


text: Heb “fifty cubits.” See the note on this expression in Esth 5:14 .