Midvash

תֶּרֶשׁTeresh

proper name, masculine: eunuch at court of Ahasuerus (Esther 2:21; Esther 6:2)

Pronunciation: teh'-resh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8657

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

  • Esther 2:21 One day as Mordecai was on duty at the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthana and Teresh—who were guards at the door of the king’s private quarters—became angry at King Xerxes and plotted to assassinate him.
  • Esther 6:2 In those records he discovered an account of how Mordecai had exposed the plot of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the door to the king’s private quarters. They had plotted to assassinate King Xerxes.

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).