Associations to the word «Esther»

Wiktionary

ESTHER, proper noun. A female given name.
ESTHER, proper noun. A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
ESTHER, proper noun. The heroine of the Book of Esther.

Dictionary definition

ESTHER, noun. (Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim).
ESTHER, noun. An Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre.

Wise words

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