From Hebrewאֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ (Akhashverósh) from Old Persian (Xšayāršā, “ruler among kings”). Cognates include Xerxes from Ancient Greek Ξέρξης (Xerxēs), from the same Old Persian name.
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Ahasuerus Sentence Examples
In England, besides the ballads in Percy's Reliques, William Godwin introduced the idea of an eternal witness of the course of civilization in his St Leon (1799),(1799), and his son-in-law Shelley introduces Ahasuerus in his Queen Mab.
One would suppose that the most ignorant Jew could never have mistaken Haman, the minister of Ahasuerus, for the minister of Pharaoh, as happens in the Koran, or identified Miriam, the sister of Moses, with Mary (= Mariam), the mother of Christ.