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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.
Generic synonyms: Book
Group relationships: Old Testament, Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings
Lexicographical Neighbors of Book Of Esther
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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