Haddassah extra unremarkably called Esther (אֶסְתֵּר, Standard Hebrew Ester, Tiberian Hebrew ʾEstēr) was a woman in the Hebrew Bible, the queen of Ahasuerus (commonly identified by owning Xerxes I or Artaxerxes II), and heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther which is named fallowing her.

The name
Based on data from a Book of Esther she was a Jewish woman originally known as Hadassah. While she entered a royal harem she received the title Esther by which she was hence forth river known. Hadassah means "myrtle" in Hebrew and the title Esther is virtually all belike related to the Median word for myrtle, astra and a Persian word satarah meaning star — the myrtle blossom resembles a twinkling star.

Esther may exist as too be understood to mean "hidden" inside Hebrew, & her title is interpreted so around Midrash, where these are told that Esther hid her nationality & lineage when Mordecai got advised. Additionally God's workings are hidden in the cases of the Book of Esther possibly though he is never mentioned explicitly.

A Targum provides another Midrashic explanation claiming that she wwhen when beautiful as a Evening Star, which is astara in Greek. Critics of the historicity of the Book of Esther attempt to derive the title from either Ishtar, a heathen goddess associated using a Evening Star, although the common Hebrew rendition of the latter title is the phonetically unrelated Ashtoreth. A list could nonetheless exist when coincidently related, as a Semitic name Ishtar may part the most common origin by having Indo-European words for star.

The story

Esther was the girl of Abihail, a Benjamite. She resided by having her full cousin Mordecai, who held a few professional in the menage of the Persian king at "Shushan in the palace."

Ahasuerus, with rid himself of Vashti, chose Esther to be his married woman & queen. Shortly when this he gave Haman the Agagite, his prime minister, power & authority to destroy and extirpate all the Jews throughout the Persian empire. Per interposition of Esther this terrible catastrophe was averted. Haman was hanged on the gallows he had designed for Mordecai; & a Jews established an annual feast, a feast of Purim, in memory of their grand delivery. Based on data from traditional Jewish dating this come astir about fifty-both years fallowing a Go to.

Esther appears in a Bible as the woman of deep piousness, faith, braveness, nationalism, & caution, cooperative using guide; a duteous girl to her adopted father, docile & obedient to his counsels, & anxious to part the king's favour by using him for the effective of the Jewish population. That she was agitate as an instrument in the hand of God to avert a destruction of the Jewish humans, & to afford the babies protection & forward their wealth & peace in their captivity, is manifest from either the Scripture account.

For the discussion of the historicity of Esther, watch Book of Esther.