Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Esther 2:7
That is, Esther; Hadassah was her Hebrew name before her marriage, and she was called Esther by the king after it.
That is, Esther; Hadassah was her Hebrew name before her marriage, and she was called Esther by the king after it.
Verse Esther 2:7. _HE BROUGHT UP HADASSAH_] הדשה _hadassah_ signifies a _myrtle_ in Chaldee: this was probably her first or _Babylonish_ _name_. When she came to the _Persian_ court, she was called _...
Hadassah, הדסה _hădassâh_ from הדס _hădas_ (“myrtle”) would seem to have been the Hebrew, and Esther the Persian, name of the damsel. Esther is thought to be connected through the Zend with ἀστήρ...
ESTHER CHOSEN QUEEN. Ere long Ahasuerus longs for his lost queen's comradeship. He is moved to issue a summons throughout all his territories, commanding all fair maidens to appear as candidates for t...
HADASSAH. myrtle. Not living with Mordecai (who was in the palace, Esther 2:5), but brought up by him. ESTHER. star. But Rabbi Yehudah derives it from _sathar,_ to hide, because she was hidden in her...
_brought up_ Heb. _was foster-father to_Hadassah. The word is rendered -nursing-father" in Numbers 11:12; Isaiah 49:23. _Hadassah, that is, Esther_ Hadassah, from the Heb. _hădas_, -myrtle. [66] " For...
HE BROUGHT UP HADASSAH, THAT IS, ESTHER— As she was born in Babylon, in analogy to the language of that place they gave her the name of הדסה _Hadassah,_ which in the Chaldee signifies a _myrtle;_ but...
B. Solicitude of Mordecai TEXT: Esther 2:5-11 5 There was a certain Jew in Shushan the palace, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, 6 who had...
_WHO HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY FROM JERUSALEM WITH THE CAPTIVITY WHICH HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY WITH JECONIAH KING OF JUDAH, WHOM NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING OF BABYLON HAD CARRIED AWAY._ No JFB commentary on t...
THE CHOICE OF ESTHER TO BE QUEEN. MORDECAI'S SERVICE 1. He remembered, etc.] LXX has 'he thought no more of Vashti, remembering what,' etc....
HADASSAH] a Hebrew name meaning 'Myrtle.' ESTHER] connected by some with the Persian word for 'star'; according to others, the same as the Babylonian 'Ishtar,' the Canaanite 'Ashtoreth.'...
GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 2 V1 Later, when the king was not still angry, he thought about Vashti. He remembered what she had done. And he remembered the law that he h...
HADASSAH. — This is evidently formed from the Hebrew _hadas,_ the myrtle: Esther is generally assumed to be a Persian name, meaning a star. Unless we assume that this latter name was given afterwards,...
וַ יְהִ֨י אֹמֵ֜ן אֶת ־הֲדַסָּ֗ה הִ֤יא אֶסְתֵּ
THE SERVICE OF A FOREIGNER Esther 2:1 Esther's Hebrew name meant Myrtle. It could not have been easy for her to retain her sweet simplicity amid the corruptions of her time, but her Persian name mean...
In this chapter we have a revelation of customs obtaining in the household of the king. We can read them with thankfulness that wherever the purifying forces of revealed religion have operated they ha...
Brothers. Josephus, ([Antiquities?] xi. 6.) the old Latin version of the Syriac, Abenezra, &c., suppose that Mardochai was uncle to Esther. But the Hebrew, Syriac, Greek, and Chaldean assert that he w...
(7) And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead,...
The Beauty Contest I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we saw Queen Vashti loose everything for refusing to come to the party when King Xerxes requested her presence! 1. Not only did she loose her crown a...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 10. The Book of Nehemiah has shewn us Judah reinstated in the land, but deprived of the presence of God, except as to general blessing, and unacknow...
AND HE BROUGHT UP HADASSAH (THAT IS ESTHER) HIS UNCLE'S DAUGHTER,.... Her Hebrew name was Hadassah, which signifies a myrtle, to which the Israelites, and good men among them, are sometimes compared,...
And he brought up Hadassah, that [is], Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid [was] fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead,...
_And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther_ Hadassah was her Hebrew name, before her marriage; and she was called Esther by the king after it. _Esther was brought also unto the king's house_ Or take...
And he brought up, nourished and reared, HADASSAH, THAT IS, ESTHER, HIS UNCLE'S DAUGHTER; although her cousin, he became her foster-father and guardian, since he was evidently very much older than she...
THE CHOICE OF VIRGINS FOR THE POSITION OF QUEEN...
ESTHER CHOSEN AS QUEEN (vv. 1-18) We read nothing more as to Vashti, whether she was simply banished from the king's court or killed. But it was four years before the king married a queen to take Va...
BROUGHT UP: _ Heb._ nourished FAIR AND BEAUTIFUL: _ Heb._ fair of form, and good of countenance...
1-20 We see to what absurd practices those came, who were destitute of Divine revelation, and what need there was of the gospel of Christ, to purify men from the lusts of the flesh, and to bring them...
Esther 2:7 up H539 (H8802) Hadassah H1919 Esther H635 uncles H1730 daughter H1323 father H1 mother H517 woman...
CONTENTS: Esther made queen. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Mordecai, Esther, Hegai, Bigthan, Teresh, Shaashgaz. CONCLUSION: God sometimes raises up the poor out of the dust to set them among princes. Those...
Esther 2:3. _Gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace._ The polygamy we have hitherto seen is small in comparison of the indulgences of the Babylonian and Persian court. This...
_Whose name was Mordecai._ MORDECAI Providence opens avenues through which merit may attain elevation. I. Mordecai was kind to his orphan cousin. He brought her up, adopting her as his own daughter....
_And let the king appoint officers _ THE WEAK AND LOWLY Poor, helpless, feeble, may be the earthward aspect of true religion. Beggars shall be taken from the dunghill, to set them among princes. God...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 2:7 HADASSAH (“myrtle”) is the Hebrew name of Mordecai’s cousin. ESTHER 1:1 (“star”) is her Persian name....
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 2:5.] Jair, Shimei, and Kish can hardly mean the father, grandfather, and great-grandfather of Mordecai. On the contrary, if Jair were perhaps his father, Shimei and Kish may h...
EXPOSITION THE QUEST FOR MAIDENS, AND THE CHOICE OF ESTHER TO BE QUEEN IN VASHTI'S PLACE (Esther 2:1). Vashti having ceased to be queen,
And so, after these things, the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, and he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. Then said the king's servant that ministered un...
1 John 3:1; 2 Corinthians 6:18; Daniel 1:6; Daniel 1:7; Ephesians 6:4;...
Esther — Hadassah was her Hebrew name before her marriage; and she was called Esther by the king after it....