BIGTHA.A eunuch of Ahasuerus (Est_1:10).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Big'tha. (gift of God). One of the seven chamberlains or eunuchs, of the harem of King Ahasuerus. Est_1:10. (B.C. 483).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
big?tha (בּגתא, bighethā'; Septuagint Βαραζί, Barazı́; Codex Vaticanus, Βωραζή, Bōrazḗ; Codex Alexandrinus, Ὀαρεβωά, Oarebōá): One of the seven eunuchs or chamberlains having charge of the harem of King Xerxes (?Ahasuerus?) and commanded to bring Vashti to the king's banquet (Est_1:10).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Bigtha
(Heb. Bigtha', בַּגְתָא, Gesenius thinks perhaps garden, SEE BIGVAI; but, according to Furst [Handwort. s.v.], the first syllable בַּגאּappears to be the Βαγ so often met with in Persian prop., names [e.g. Bagorazus, Bagoas; SEE BIGTHAN, SEE ABAGTHA ], possibly connected with the Zend. baga and Sanscrit bhag c, fortune; while the termination אּתָאor אּתָןfor אּת נָאmay be the -τάνης likewise occurring in Persian prop. names [e.g. Otanes, Catanes, Petanes], from the Sanscrit tanu, Zend. ten, body or life; Sept. Βαραζί, but other copies [by confusion with one of the other names] Ζηβαδαθά; Vulg. Bagatha), the fourth named of the seven eunuchs (סָרַיסַים, "chamberlains"), having charge of the harem of Xerxes ("Ahasuerus"), and commanded to bring in Vashti to the king's drinking- party (Est_1:10). B.C. 483.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.