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הֲדַסָּה

hadassah

pronounced ha-da-SAH

Myrtle — Queen Esther’s Hebrew name

In Scripture World English Bible

He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

Esther 2:7 Scripture gives Esther’s Hebrew and Persian names together

and that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the mountain, and get olive branches, and branches of wild olive, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.”

Nehemiah 8:15 Root component — Hadassah is formed from hadas, myrtle; here myrtle branches are gathered for the booths.

I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;

Isaiah 41:19 Root component — the hadas appears in God’s promise to make the wilderness flourish.

Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be to Yahweh for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”

Isaiah 55:13 Root component — the myrtle replaces the brier as an enduring sign of God’s restoring word.

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Hebrew words
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