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What does Mordecai mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A Biblical character, one of the main personalities in the Book of Esther. He adopted and raised his cousin Esther and foiled a plot to assassinate the king.
Name
  1. A male given name of Babylonian and Hebrew origin.
    1. (meaning, history) A biblical name.
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Not unconnected with these two mercenary characters are the Cohens, the family with whom the saintly Mordecai lodges.
Esther and Mordecai confront a hostile host society and an implacable bureaucracy.
Mordecai Richler wrote Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang for his youngest son, whose name is the same as that of the story's hero.
Her tomb and the reputed grave of Mordecai, uncle of Esther, are both places of pilgrimage.
Still later came the novels of Robertson Davies and the satires of Mordecai Richler.
Haman was furious with Mordecai, because Mordecai refused to bow down before him to show his respect.

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