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title: הֲדַסָּה — Hadassah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: הֲדַסָּה (1919), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Hadassah. BDB 1906: n.pr.f. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# הֲדַסָּה

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«הֲדַסָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Hadassah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1919 · **BDB:** הֲדַסָּה

### Glosses

Hadassah (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Hadassah [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1919/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.f. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1919/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. Jewish name of Esther (= myrtle, on form cf. Sta§ 199a) Est 2:7 (cf. אֶסְתֵּר).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «הֲדַסָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1492/1919/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Esther 2:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.7/)

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וַיְהִ֨י אֹמֵ֜ן אֶת־הֲדַסָּ֗ה הִ֤יא אֶסְתֵּר֙ בַּת־דֹּד֔וֹ כִּ֛י אֵ֥ין לָ֖הּ אָ֣ב וָאֵ֑ם וְהַנַּעֲרָ֤ה יְפַת־תֹּ֙אַר֙ וְטוֹבַ֣ת מַרְאֶ֔ה וּבְמ֤וֹת אָבִ֙יהָ֙ וְאִמָּ֔הּ לְקָחָ֧הּ מָרְדֳּכַ֛י ל֖וֹ לְבַֽת׃

*Word for word:* and he.was acting.as.guardian (et) Hadassah that \[is\].Esther the.daughter his.uncle his (dm) there.\[was\].not for her a.father and a.mother and the.young woman \[was\].beautiful of.form and good of.appearance and at the.death her.father her and mother her he took.her Mordecai his to a.daughter

*JPS 1917:* And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was of beautiful form and fair to look on; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

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