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# הֲדַסָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1919

**Hadassah** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Hadassah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1919/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

הֲדַסָּה: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1919/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. Jewish name of Esther (= myrtle, on form cf. Sta§ 199a) Est 2:7 (cf. אֶסְתֵּר).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Hadassah (1).

## In the verses

[Esther 2:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.7/#tree)

וַיְהִ֨י אֹמֵ֜ן אֶת־הֲדַסָּ֗ה הִ֤יא אֶסְתֵּר֙ בַּת־דֹּד֔וֹ כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין לָ֖הּ אָ֣ב וָאֵ֑ם וְהַנַּעֲרָ֤ה יְפַת־תֹּ֙אַר֙ וְטוֹבַ֣ת מַרְאֶ֔ה וּבְמ֤וֹת אָבִ֙יהָ֙ וְאִמָּ֔הּ לְקָחָ֧הּ מָרְדֳּכַ֛י ל֖וֹ לְבַֽת׃

*Word for word:* and he.was acting.as.guardian (et) Hadassah that \[is\].Esther the.daughter his.uncle his (dm) there.\[was\].not for her a.father and a.mother and the.young woman \[was\].beautiful of.form and good of.appearance and at the.death her.father her and mother her he took.her Mordecai his to a.daughter

*JPS 1917:* And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was of beautiful form and fair to look on; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1919.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1919/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).