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מֶרֶס Meres

Every verse in which this name stands — 1 place, in canonical order, first appearance to last. These are the occurrences our own corpus tags as this name, counting every form the text writes it in, which is the number on the list.

PersonGematria 300×1 named in TanakhFirst appearance:

A Persian. The name stands once in the Tanakh, at Esther 1:14.

Esther 1:14אסתר א:יד

וְהַקָּרֹב אֵלָיו כַּרְשְׁנָא שֵׁתָר אַדְמָתָא תַרְשִׁישׁ מֶרֶס מַרְסְנָא מְמוּכָן שִׁבְעַת שָׂרֵי פָּרַס וּמָדַי רֹאֵי פְּנֵי הַמֶּלֶךְ הַיֹּשְׁבִים רִאשֹׁנָה בַּמַּלְכֽוּת

and the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat the first in the kingdom:

Quick answers

What is the gematria of Meres?

Meres — מרס in Hebrew — has a gematria of 300 in the standard method.

How many times is Meres named in the Tanakh?

1 time, first at Esther 1:14.

A spelling is not a name. The written word מרס stands 1 time in the corpus, which is a different question and often a different number: the same letters can spell another name or an ordinary word, and a name written with a particle attached is a word that search never returns. It is here, as itself.

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