Hadassah

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Hadassah

  • /həˈdæsə/

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Borrowed from Hebrew הֲדַסָּה (“myrtle”), the Hebrew name of Esther in the Hebrew Bible.

proper noun

  1. A female given name from Hebrew. And hee brought vp Hadaſſah (that is Eſther) his vncles daughter, for ſhe had neither father nor mother, and the maid was faire and beautiful, whom Mordecai (when her father and mother were dead) tooke for his owne daughter.

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@misc{hadassah_2026,
  title = {Hadassah},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hadassah},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}