Bible Person
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.
Severe, a eunuch or chamberlain in the palace of Ahasuerus, who conspired with another to murder him. The plot was detected by Mordecai, and the conspirators were put to death (Esther 2:21; 6:2). 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.