International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Vaizatha; Vajezatha

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Vaizatha; Vajezatha


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vı̄´za-tha, va-iz´a-tha, va-jez´a-tha, vaj-ḗ-za´tha (ויזתא, wayzāthā'): One of the sons of Haman (). The form has been held to be corrupt, the Hebrew letter wāw ()ו being exceptionally tall, and the Hebrew letter zāyin ()ז exceptionally short (Benfey, Die persischen Keilinschriften (1847), XVIII, 93), and points to Vahyazdata, “Given of the Best-One” (OHL, 255).