Mordecai

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

/ ˈmɔr dɪˌkaɪ, ˌmɔr dɪˈkeɪ aɪ /

the cousin and guardian of Esther who delivered the Jews from the destruction planned by Haman. Esther 2–8.

a male given name.

Example sentences from the Web for mordecai

Mordecai, a court player with an ear for intel (and a way to convey it to power), achieves some of that power.

Purim Perils: His View Is His Own |Rabbi Daniel Landes |February 18, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Esther and Mordecai confront a hostile host society and an implacable bureaucracy.

Purim Perils: His View Is His Own |Rabbi Daniel Landes |February 18, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Beside a statue of Mordecai Anielewicz, the hero of the Warsaw uprising, dripped a crude cartoon of an Auschwitz-bound train.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews Vandalize Jerusalem’s Holocaust Memorial |Alex Klein |June 11, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
But Mordecai is not a fatalist whose creed paralyses his energies.

Expositor's Bible: Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther |Walter Adeney

Make a hard bargain with Mordecai, and ten to one but you are caught in his trap.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 |Various
Mordecai was one of those who sat in the hall of the Temple, and he knew seventy languages.

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala |Various
Mordecai is an unruly specimen, and then there is Simeon, who never fails to have an answer ready.

The American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 6, June, 1889 |Various
Mordecai still shambles around and worships Mrs. Harrington.

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 |Lucy Maud Montgomery

Mordecai ¹

/ (ˌmɔːdəˈkaɪ, ˈmɔːdəˌkaɪ) /

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

Mordecai ²

/ (ˌmɔːdəˈkaɪ, ˈmɔːdəˌkaɪ) /

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