Associations to the word «Esther»

Wiktionary

ESTHER, proper noun. A female given name.
ESTHER, proper noun. A book of the Old Testament and the Hebrew Tanakh.
ESTHER, proper noun. The heroine of the Book of Esther.

Dictionary definition

ESTHER, noun. (Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim).
ESTHER, noun. An Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King