Esther 2:7

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

He brought up Hadassah, that is, Ester, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordekhai took her for his own daughter.

Cross References

Genesis 48:5

Now your two sons, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you into Egypt, are mine; Efrayim and Menasheh, even as Re'uven and Shim`on, will be mine.

Esther 1:11

to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.

Esther 2:15

Now when the turn of Ester, the daughter of Avichayil the uncle of Mordekhai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Ester obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

Esther 2:20

Ester had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordekhai had charged her; for Ester obeyed Mordekhai, like she did when she was brought up by him.

Esther 8:1

On that day, King Achashverosh gave the house of Haman, the Jews' enemy, to Ester the queen. Mordekhai came before the king; for Ester had told what he was to her.

Job 31:17

or have eaten my morsel alone, and the fatherless has not eaten of it

Job 31:18

(no, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, her have I guided from my mother's womb);

2 Corinthians 6:18

I will be to you a Father. You will be to me sons and daughters,' says the Lord Almighty.*

Ephesians 6:4

You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

1 John 3:1

Behold, how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! For this cause the world doesn't know us, because it didn't know him.