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  • Only her father is named in the Bible, not her mother. Her fathers name was Abihail. Esther was a Jewish orphan girl of the tribe of Benjamin whose Hebrew name was Hadassah (meaning Myrtle. She was a descendant from among those deported from Jerusalem along with King Jehoiachin (Jeconiah) in 617 B.C.E. (Es 2:5-7) She was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai. (Es 2:15) Her guardian was her older cousin Mordecai, one of "the king's servants that were in the king's gate" of the palace at Shushan during the reign of the Persian king Ahasuerus (Xerxes I, in the fifth century B.C.E.). (Es 2:7; 3:2)

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