Hadassah was the Hebrew name of Esther, the Jewish orphan raised by her cousin Mordecai who became queen of Persia and, at great risk, saved her people from destruction. The name means myrtle, a fragrant, evergreen tree.
Beautiful and increasingly chosen, Hadassah carries the courage of a queen who acted for such a time as this.
Variants & nicknames
Esther, Dassah
Hadassah in the Bible
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.