Bible Names

Ahasuerus: meaning of the name

Ahasuerus means “prince; head; chief.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Ahasuerus in Hebrew and Greek

אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ H325

ʼĂchashvêrôwsh (akh-ash-vay-rosh') — Achashverosh (i.e. Ahasuerus or Artaxerxes, but in this case Xerxes), the title (rather than name) of a...

or (shortened) אַחַשְׁרֹשׁ (Esther 10:1); of Persian origin;

Who named Ahasuerus in the Bible

Ahasuerus in Scripture

“Ahasuerus” appears in 30 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Ezra 4:6

    And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Esther 1:1

    Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)

  • Esther 1:2

    That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,

  • Esther 1:9

    Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

  • Esther 1:10

    On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

  • Esther 1:15

    What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?

  • Esther 1:16

    And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.

  • Esther 1:17

    For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.