Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An abbreviation of
Esther . See Century Cyclopedia of Names.
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Examples
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Esth. 2: 7 states: “Mordecai adopted her as his own daughter [literally: took her le-vat],” which the midrash understands as: Mordecai took her le-bayit, that is, as a wife (BT Megillah loc. cit.).
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Esth. 1: 10 attests: “on the seventh day, when the king was merry with wine,” from which the Rabbis understood that the king was intoxicated.
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Esth. 1: 9 tells that this banquet was held “in the royal palace of King Ahasuerus.”
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Esth. 7: 5 states: “Thereupon King Ahasuerus demanded [va-yomer — literally, “and he said” — written twice in the verse] of Queen Esther, ‘Who is he ....’”
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He recalled Vashti and her proper behavior, and he also remembered how he had improperly condemned her (Esth. Rabbah 5: 2).
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Esth. 2: 1 relates: “Some time afterward, when the anger of King Ahasuerus subsided, he thought of Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her,” but without specifying what had befallen her.
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Gesenius renders by "red coral"; dr, Esth., i, 6, which is translated in the Vulg. by lapis parius, "marble"; the Arabic dar, however, means "pearl", and thus also Furst renders the Hebrew word.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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India, I. (Esth., i, 1) the region on the right bank of the Indus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Besides the many pictorial representations of kneeling prisoners, and the like, left us by ancient art, Gen., xli, 43 and Esth., iii, 2 may be quoted to show how universally in the East kneeling was accepted as the proper attitude of suppliants and dependents.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Esth. that he compared this manuscript with a very early copy, which Pamphilus testified had been taken from and corrected according to the Hexapla or Origen.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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