ye.hu.di identifies an individual or a people-group named in accounts of threat, assembly, defense, and communal observance.

The term designates an individual or the wider people identified together: Mordecai is named individually, while the plural marks the community addressed by royal decrees, gathered for defense, and observing commemorative days. The supplied verses show the same group designation in settings outside Esther as well, including people expelled, present as witnesses, or scattered among other lands.

1. Individual and collective group designation · dominant

   The singular identifies Mordecai as a particular member of the people in Esther 2:5 and Esther 6:10, while the plural identifies the community facing Haman's decree in Esther 3:13 and assembling to defend their lives in Esther 8:11. In Esther 9:27 the plural names those who accepted an ongoing observance, and Jeremiah 40:11 places the plural among people in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and other lands.

   Esther 2:5Esther 3:13Esther 6:10Esther 8:11Esther 9:27Jeremiah 40:11

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with “Jews” for the plural and “the Jew” or “a Jewish man” for an individual; it also uses “Judeans” in Jeremiah 38:19 and Jeremiah 40:11. These are translation-level presentations rather than definitions.