He also is the uncle of Mordecai who adopted Esther as his daughter Quoted source Abihail in the Bible father of Esther.

Esther another name. If you and your husband are religious and the name has significance to you name your daughter Esther. According to one tradition she was forty years old while another places her age at seventy-four which is the numerical value of the name Hadassah Esthers second name or according to another calculation of this numerical value seventy-five see above. In the Old Testament Esther originally named Hadassah was the captured Jewish wife of the King of Persia who risked her life to save her exiled people from annihilation.

The Book of Esther in the Old Testament tells the story of Queen Esther the Jewish wife of the king of Persia. Synonyms for Esther in Free Thesaurus. Isobel and variants Ishbel.

And she was full fair and seemly of face. Possibly means star in Persian. While Esther is an older generation name I still think its beautiful especially because of the story of Esther in the Old Testament.

I think she will love hearing the story of where her name came from and what a courageous woman Esther was. Alternatively it could be a derivative of the name of the Near Eastern goddess Ishtar. A young beautiful Hebrew woman who became the wife of the Persian king Ahasuerus and risked herself to save her people.

Esther as a girls name is pronounced ESS-ter. What are synonyms for Esther. Indeed according to one theory it may be that another name closely linked to Vashtis tale also stem from the name of this queen none other than Esther.

In the biblical Book of Esther the story goes that Ahasuerus banised Vashti because she refused to come before him. Esther 25 NIV Bible Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair the son of Shimei the son of Kish. And this Mordecai was the foster-father of Hadassah his uncles daughter.