H635 — אֶסְתֵּר (ʼEçtêr)

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Strong's H635 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: אֶסְתֵּר (ʼEçtêr)

Pronunciation: es-tare'

Morphology: n-pr-f

Name Meaning: Esther = "star"

Derivation: of Persian derivation;

Definition: Ester, the Jewish heroine

KJV Renderings: Esther.

Senses

  1. the queen of Persia, heroine of the book of Esther-daughter of Abihail, cousin and adopted daughter of Mordecai, of the tribe of Benjamin, made queen by king Ahasuerus to replace divorced queen, Vashti.

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.