Bible Person

Teresh

Male · 2 cross references

Teresh is one of the palace officials who conspires against King Ahasuerus and is exposed through Mordecai's vigilance. He appears in the early court setting that later becomes crucial to Esther's story. First appears in Esth 2:21.1

AI summary: Teresh matters because his cross references place him in the assassination plot whose discovery is recorded and eventually remembered at the decisive moment of Mordecai's vindication. What looks minor at first becomes one of the hinges of the entire book. Taken together, the material presents Teresh as part of the failed conspiracy that sets up a later reversal in Esther.1

Central Figure

Teresh

Severe, a eunuch or chamberlain in the palace of Ahasuerus, who conspired with another to murder him.