Bible Names

Hadassah: meaning of the name

Hadassah means “a myrtle; joy.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Hadassah in Hebrew and Greek

הֲדַסָּה H1919

Hădaççâh (had-as-saw') — Hadassah (or Esther)

feminine of H1918 (הֲדַס);

Hadassah in Scripture

“Hadassah” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Esther 2:7

    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.