Bible Person
Male · 2 cross references
Bigthana is one of the court eunuchs in Esther who conspires against Ahasuerus and is exposed through Mordecai's intervention. He belongs to the palace intrigue that sets up one of the book's decisive reversals. First appears in Esth 2:21.1
AI summary: Bigthana matters because the cross references place his conspiracy at the hidden beginning of Mordecai's later elevation. What looks like a brief court-security episode becomes part of the providential chain through which the king later remembers Mordecai at exactly the right time. Taken together, the material presents Bigthana as a palace conspirator whose failed plot becomes a hinge in Esther's story of reversal.1
Central Figure
Bigthana
One of the eunuchs who “kept the door” in the court of Ahasuerus.
One of the eunuchs who “kept the door” in the court of Ahasuerus. With Teresh he conspired against the king’s life. Mordecai detected the conspiracy, and the culprits were hanged (Esther 2:21-23; 6:1-3). 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.