מְמוּכָן
me.mu.khan
Memucan
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Memucan: A Minor Biblical Figure Memucan appears in the Hebrew Bible only three times, identifying him as a marginal character in the biblical narrative. The name is a proper noun—a personal designation rather than a common word with semantic range or theological significance. His extremely limited occurrence (just three mentions) means the biblical text provides minimal information about who he was or what he did. Without additional lexical data such as etymological origin, contextual usage patterns, or narrative roles, only the bare fact of his existence in the biblical record can be confirmed. The three occurrences are his only biblical attestation, suggesting he played a brief, supporting role in whatever narrative includes him. A general reader encountering "Memucan" in scripture would find little basis from frequency alone to understand his importance to the overall biblical story. To understand Memucan's actual significance, one would need to examine the specific biblical passages where he appears—information not contained in the lexical data provided here.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
3 total occurrences across the text
and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),
Esther 1:16Memucan answered before the king and the princes, “Vashti the queen has not done wrong to just the king, but also to all the princes, and to all the people who are in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus.
Esther 1:21This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did according to the word of Memucan: