The root of Esther in Hebrew is hester meaning hidden Often we think that when someone is hiding something it is out of a situation of embarrassment or discomfort.

Esther name biblical meaning. Esther is a derivative of the name Ishtar the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility love war and sex. Esther is the Persian name of a Hebrew girl named Hadassah means myrtle who was able to avert the genocide of the Hebrews during the time of the Babylonian exile see the Book of Esther. It was adopted as an English name in the 17th century.

She was a Jewess named Hadassah the myrtle but when she entered the royal harem she received the name by which she henceforth became known Esther 27. Esther as a girls name is pronounced ESS-ter. The kings advisor Haman persuaded the king to exterminate all the Jews in the realm.

Possibly means star in Persian. Queen Esther was the Jewish wife of Persian king Ahasuerus Xerxes. See our Bible study on the book of Esther for more information.

The Book of Esther in the Old Testament tells the story of Queen Esther the Jewish wife of the king of Persia. It may derive from the Old Persian stāra NPer. הסתר which means hiddenness and corresponds to a spiritual plane representing hidden Gdliness.

It is a Syro-Arabian modification of the Persian word satarah which means a star. Esther with the help of Mordecai foils a plot by Haman to kill all the Jews in the kingdom. ستاره - setāra meaning star or - more likely - from the name of the Babylonian goddess of love Ištar cf.

It was adopted as an English name in the 17th Century. The Book of Esther in the Old Testament of the Bible was named after her the main character of this dramatic piece of Jewish history. The queen of Ahasuerus and heroine of the book that bears her name.