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Esther = I conceal Deut.31.18
It's doubly significant in the Bible book, as Esther hides her ethnicity until Haman is caught, and God's name is never found in the book, except in 6 secret acronyms.
Beautiful & mysterious, though no doubt it has Persian meaning too אסתיר ׃.
Esther is derived from the Persian (Farsi) word "setareh", which means both "star" and "fate". Serareh is a fairly popular as a woman's name in Iran. A notable bearer is Iranian actress Setareh Eskandari (born 1974).
The name Esther in the Book of Esther in the Old Testament means hidden. Her other name, Hadassah means olive tree, because her skin was green like an olive.
The name means something like: "me, the one that is hidden". It´s referring to God as his name doesn´t appear at all in the book ´Esther` in the Bible.
The "Encyclopaedia Judaica" has this to say about the Biblical Esther: "Her real name was Hadassah, but she was called Esther by non-Jews, this being the Persian name for Venus." That was because she was so beautiful, which is what recommended her to the king in the first place, following his disillusionment with his first wife, Vashti. The Venus referred to is obviously Ishtar.
Ishtar is an Assyrian/Babylonian goddess, not Persian. [noted -ed]
The Book of Esther in the Torah tells the story of her saving all the Jews from being killed and were able to fight back against those who tried to kill them, not that she saved some from persecution. [noted -ed]
Setare means star in Persian, Esther does not.
The Old Testament tells us that Esther's original (Jewish) name was Hadasah. It was changed to Esther in order to fool the Persian king Antiochus (so he wouldnt know she's Jewish). That is how we know Esther is an authentic Persian-originated name. This can also provide a phonetic link between Esther and the Hebrew verb "LeHastir" (to hide) which was mentioned in the previous comment.
The Persian king from the Esther story was called Achashverosh, not Antiochus. Antiochus Epiphanes is the Greek king who was defeated by the Maccabees.
Derived from the Hebrew word for 'secret'.

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