Esther 2:7 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁷ And he brought up Hadas´sah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mor´decai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ He had brought up Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle's daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was beautiful and lovely, and when her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

Common English Bible

⁷ Mordecai had been a father to Hadassah (that is, Esther), though she was really his cousin, because she had neither father nor mother. The girl had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at. When her parents died, Mordecai had taken her to be his daughter.

Esther 2:7 Krydshenvisninger

Genesis 48:5

And now thy two sons, E´phra-im and Manas´seh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

Esther 1:11

to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.

Esther 2:15

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Ab´ihail the uncle of Mor´decai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what He´gai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

Esther 2:20

Esther had not yet showed her kindred nor her people, as Mor´decai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mor´decai, like as when she was brought up with him.

Esther 8:1

On that day did the king Ahasue´rus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mor´decai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

Job 31:18

(for from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

2 Corinthians 6:18

and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

Ephesians 6:4

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

1 John 3:1

Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.