Esther is a feminine given name.

Esther name meaning biblical. 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. Esther got her name from Queen Esther from the Bible which means beautiful queen. Alternatively it could be a derivative of the name of the Near Eastern goddess Ishtar.

Esther א ס ת ר Ἐσθήρ f English French Spanish Dutch German Danish Norwegian Swedish Jewish Biblical Biblical Latin Biblical Greek Possibly means star in Persian. Refers to the planet venus. Esther is a derivative of the name Ishtar the Assyrian and Babylonian goddess of fertility love war and sex.

It may derive from the Old Persian stāra NPer. A dutiful daughter to her adopted father docile and obedient to his counsels and anxious to share the kings favour with him for the good of the Jewish people. The name Esther is assigned only once in the Bible.

According to the Book of Esther this Mordecai and his niece Esther managed to not only avert a holocaust but also to convert the king to Judaism and occupy the most important political positions in the empire. If is_derive 1 result_d mysql_querySELECT FROM bnames_derives WHERE derives_name_id listnames_id. The name Esther also represents her fully.

Meaning of name. Her middle name is Aponi which is native American for butterfly. Esther as queen and Mordecai as.

It has also been suggested that it derived from the Babylonian Ishtar the name of a goddess of love and fertility. 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.