Esther by Any Other Name Posted March 21 2016 in Updates.

Esther name in other languages. Hadassah was her given name. The name Esther is widely used. The pagan origin of both names was forgotten throughout the generations and today Esther and also Mordecai have become common Hebrew names.

It has 35 variants that are used in English and other languages. Other English variants include the pet forms Ess. Other boys names around Esther ESTEVENSON ESTEVES ESTEVO ESTEVON ESTEYBANN ESTHEBAN ESTHÉBAN ESTHEBANE ESTHEBANN ESTHEFANO ESTHER ESTHEVAN ESTHEVAO ESTHM ESTI ESTIA ESTIAGO ESTIAK ESTIBEL ESTIBEN ESTIENNE.

King Ahasuerus has done the same to Esthers uncle Mordecai. Your Name in Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Esther has been used in the United States ever since 1880 with over 261325 girls given the name in the past 200 years.

Your first name up to 16 letters Egyptian Hieroglyphs at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. But it doesnt end there. Esther was derived from the Old Persian word stāra meaning star 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.

Esther was probably a name given to the girl by her Persian friends. English German Dutch Latin French Italian Spanish Catalan Portuguese Finnish Russian Polish Czech Ukrainian Amharic Arabic Romanian Hungarian Lithuanian and Greek. A young beautiful Hebrew woman who became the wife of the Persian king Ahasuerus and risked herself to save her people.

Esther by Any Other Name. Her story plays between the two waves of return to Jerusalem but her bravery is still celebrated every year during the feast of Purim Esther 926. Other Languages Cultures Ester Biblical Hebrew Ester Catalan Ester Czech Ester Estonian Ester Esteri Essi Finnish Ester Hebrew Eszter Eszti Hungarian Ester Icelandic Ester Italian Estera Lithuanian Estera Polish Ester Portuguese Estera Romanian Yesfir Esfir Russian Estera Slovak.