Definition of Book of Esther

1. Noun. An Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre.

Exact synonyms: Esther
Generic synonyms: Book
Group relationships: Old Testament, Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings

Lexicographical Neighbors of Book Of Esther

Bontemps
Bonwill triangle
Boocercus eurycerus
Boodha
Boodhas
Boodhism
Boodhist
Boodhists
Boogeyman
Book of Amos
Book of Baruch
Book of Common Prayer
Book of Daniel
Book of Deuteronomy
Book of Ecclesiastes
Book of Esther (current term)
Book of Exodus
Book of Ezekiel
Book of Ezra
Book of Genesis
Book of Habakkuk
Book of Haggai
Book of Hosea
Book of Isaiah
Book of Jeremiah
Book of Job
Book of Joel
Book of Jonah
Book of Joshua
Book of Judges

Literary usage of Book of Esther

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The foregoing story of Esther is taken from the Book of Esther as found in the ... Book of Esther.—In the Hebrew Bible and the Septuagint the Book of Esther ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The Book of Esther takes its name from that of the heroine, which is usually ... Outside of the Book of Esther, the feast is first mentioned II Mace. xv. ..."

3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"There is also another new point which has to be mentioned, viz. that, judging from our experience elsewhere, the Book of Esther has probably passed through ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"It is at any rate in perfect harmony with history that the book of Esther includes India among the subject provinces ; this is confirmed not only by ..."

5. The History of Israel by Heinrich Ewald (1883)
"(comp. Ezra i. 1, 2); a remarkable phenomenon, which, however, appears also in the LXX., and see ins to admit of no other explanation. The Book of Esther. ..."

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