Talk:Vashti

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Note: Some text here is from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.

[edit] Name meaning

I've corrected the name meaning per Behind the Name's entry. In my experience, BtN is one of the most accurate—if not the most accurate—name site I've ever come across.

BtN's entry notes that Vashti is "most likely" to be Persian in origin, rather than Hebrew. Oxygen.com's Babynamer and Hebrew Letters, other fairly reliable sources imo, gives this Persian meaning as "beautiful". Randee15 05:26, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)