Esther 2:7

Overview - Esther 2
Out of the choice of virgins a queen is to be chosen.
Mordecai the nursing father of Esther.
Esther preferred before the rest.
12 The manner of purification, and going in to the king.
15 Esther best pleasing the king, is made queen.
21 Mordecai discovering a treason, is recorded in the chronicles.
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Esther 2:7  (King James Version)
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
 


brought up
Hebrew nourished.
Ephesians 6:4

Hadassah
Daniel 1:6 Daniel 1:7

his uncle's
15 ; Jeremiah 32:7-12

fair and beautiful
Hebrew fair of form and good of
countenance.
1:11

took
Genesis 48:5 ; 2 Corinthians 6:18 ; 1 John 3:1