שַׁרְבִיטsharbîyṭ

sceptre, expanded from foregoing, only Esther (1 Chronicles 5:2; 1 Chronicles 4:11; 1 Chronicles 8:4)

Pronunciation: shar-beet' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8275

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Esther 4:11 “All the king’s officials and even the people in the provinces know that anyone who appears before the king in his inner court without being invited is doomed to die unless the king holds out his gold scepter. And the king has not called for me to come to him for thirty days.”
  • Esther 5:2 When he saw Queen Esther standing there in the inner court, he welcomed her and held out the gold scepter to her. So Esther approached and touched the end of the scepter.
  • Esther 8:4 Again the king held out the gold scepter to Esther. So she rose and stood before him.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).