Ahasuerus
[uh-haz-yoo-eer-uh s, uh-has-, uh-hazh-oo-; Sephardic Hebrew ah-khahsh-ve-rawsh; Ashkenazic Hebrew ah-khuh sh-vey-ruh sh]
- a king of ancient Persia, known to the Greeks as Xerxes: husband of the Biblical Esther.
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Haman was first minister of state, and favourite to king Ahasuerus.
No Cross, No CrownWilliam Penn
For this blasphemy he was doomed to be taken at his word, and became a sort of Ahasuerus of the sea.
SeawardRichard Hovey
Shahryar finds a model consort in Shahrazad, Ahasuerus in Esther.
The Life of Sir Richard BurtonThomas Wright
He was indebted to me no less than Ahasuerus was indebted to Mordecai.
History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume VJ. H. Merle d'Aubigné
Take the setting and the spirit of the Ahasuerus crowd—self-seeking, careless of human rights, neglectful of children's claims.
Ahasuerus
- Old Testament a king of ancient Persia and husband of Esther, generally identified with Xerxes
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