Zeresh

Ze´resh (Pers. gold), the wife of Haman (Est 5:10; Est 6:13), and well worthy of him, if we may judge from the advice she gave him to prepare a gibbet and ask the king’s leave to hang Mordecai thereon [HAMAN; MORDECAI].

The wife of Haman, haughty and revengeful like him, and destined to see him and her ten sons hanging on the gallows she had designed for Mordecai the servant of God, Gen 5:10-14 6:13 7:10 9:13.\par

Ze’resh. (gold). The wife of Haman, the Agagite. Est 5:10; Est 5:14; Est 6:13. (B.C. 475).

Haman’s wife, who instigated him to erect a high gallows and to prevail on the king to hang on it Mordecai, then to go in merrily with the king unto the banquet, but predicted Haman’s own fall when she heard Mordecai was a Jew (Est 5:10; Est 5:14; Est 6:13). Every tongue that shall rise against Jehovah’s people in judgment they shall condemn (Isa 54:17).

[Zer’esh]

Wife of Haman the Agagite. Est 5:10; Est 5:14; Est 6:13.

ZERESH.—The wife of Haman (Est 5:10; Est 5:14; Est 6:13).

zē´resh (זרשׁ, zeresh, “gold,” from the Persian; Σωσάρα, Sōsára): The wife of Haman (Est 5:10, Est 5:14; Est 6:13), the vizier of Xerxes.