(Heb. id.
æֶøֶùׁ
, Persian for gold; Sept.
ÆùóáñÜ
v.r.
ÓùóáñÜ
; Josephus,
ÆÜñáñá
, Ant. 11:6, 10; Vulg. Zares), the wife of Haman the Agagite (Esther 5, 10), who advised him to prepare the gallows for Mordecai (Est_5:10; Est_5:14), but predicted his fall on learning that Mordecai was a Jew (6, 13). B.C. 474. SEE ESTHER.