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    person · also Hadassah

    Esther

    אֶסְתֵּר

    Esther, also known as Hadassah, was a Jewish queen of Persia who saved her people from genocide.

    verses
    45
    first named
    Esther 2:7
    last named
    Esther 9:32
    period
    Exile and Return
    role
    Woman

    Description

    Who was Esther?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Esther, born Hadassah, was a Jewish woman who became the queen of Persia during the reign of King Ahasuerus (Xerxes I). She was an orphan raised by her cousin Mordecai (Est.2.7). Esther was chosen to be queen after Ahasuerus deposed Queen Vashti (Est.2.17). When Haman, a high-ranking official, plotted to exterminate the Jews, Esther risked her life by approaching the king uninvited to expose Haman's plot (Esther 4-5). As a result, Haman was hanged, and the Jews were given the right to defend themselves, leading to their deliverance (Esther 7-8). Esther and Mordecai instituted the Feast of Purim to commemorate this event (Est.9.29-32). Her story exemplifies courage, faith, and God's providence in protecting His people.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Esther10 of 21 entities the graph connects to Esther, in one group: events 10. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.Judah3 events · 1,023 versesGiving1 event · 602 versesComing1 event · 574 versesDeath1 event · 329 versesStanding1 event · 228 versesDestruction1 event · 212 versesWine1 event · 92 versesReport1 event · 57 versesMordecai17 events · 50 versesHaman4 events · 45 versesEsther

    The 10 best-attested of 21 are drawn. All 21 are listed below.

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    Stands in the same events as

    and 15 more, ordered by how many events they share.

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    Where this happens

    A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.

    No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.

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    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 45, across 1 book. The name is written 56 times in them.

    1. Esther45 verses

      2:72:82:102:112:152:162:172:182:202:224:44:54:84:94:104:124:134:154:175:15:25:35:45:55:65:75:126:147:17:27:37:57:67:77:88:18:28:38:48:79:129:139:299:319:32

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    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Decree Writing and Ahasuerus’ award of Haman Estate, and 3 moreAhasuerusPersian Emperor (probably Xerxes I); husband of Esthervia Decree Writing and Esther’s instruction, and 1 moreMordecaiEsther's cousin, a Jewish leader in the Persian court.via Place Women Under CareHegaiA eunuch in charge of King Ahasuerus' harem.via Mordecai’s report of EstherReportReport is a concept gathering 54 labelled instances in the text.via Esther’s instructionHathachA eunuch in the court of King Ahasuerus.via Esther’s instructionInstructionInstruction is a concept gathering 46 labelled instances in the text.via Ahasuerus and Haman’s dining of WineDiningDining is a concept gathering 8 labelled instances in the text.via Young Woman and Esther’s goingGoingGoing is a concept gathering 321 labelled instances in the text.via Ahasuerus and Haman’s dining of WineHamanA Persian official who plotted to destroy the Jews.

    Where they appear

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    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

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