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Origin of the name ACHASHVEROSH.
Etymology of the
name ACHASHVEROSH.
Meaning of the baby name ACHASHVEROSH.
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ACHASHVEROSH (אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ).
Original Hebrew form of biblical Ahasuerus
(q.v.), a form of Persian Khshayarsha
(q.v.), meaning "venerable king." (A Dictionary of Christian
Biography, Literature, &c., Smith, 1877)
... The name of the Persian monarch
whose feastings, revelry, and decrees are recorded in the book of
Esther. The apocryphal additions to that book, as well as the
Septuagint, and Josephus, call him Arthasastha or Artaxerxes; he is
probably the same king as the Artaxerxes Longimanus of the Greek
historians, whose reign commenced B.C. 465. His favourable
disposition towards the Jews (Ezr. vii.) might be owing to the influence
of the Jewish woman, Esther. The name Achashverosh occurs also,
Dan. ix. 1, where some interpreters take it for Astyages, king of the
Medes; and Ezr. iv. 6, where Cambyses seems to be meant by it. The
word Achashverosh has been explained by means of the modern Persian as
signifying "an excellent or noble prince": this would
nearly agree with the explanation given by Herodotus (vi. 98) of the
name Artaxerxes, which according to him means "a great
warrior." The signification of the name accounts for its
being given to various monarchs. (The Penny Cyclopaedia, v.1,
1833.)
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