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Hadassah
Myrtle, the Jewish name of Esther (q.v.), Esth 2:7.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Esther 2:7 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, took for his own daughter.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.