As a baby she was given to her cousin Mordechai to raise, when her parents died. She and her cousin lived in Susa (Shushan), in Persia.
Mordecai is the one cousin whose name is recorded.See also:More about Esther and Mordecai
Mordecai was Esther's cousin.See also:More about Esther
Esther was raised by her cousin Mordecai.
She was Mordecai's cousin.
Mordecai, Esther's cousin, raised her as an adopted daughter.
The Scripture does not mention his name. It only mentions her older cousin Mordecai and her father Abihail in Esther 2:15:Esther 2:7New King James Version (NKJV)7AndMordecaihad brought up Hadassah, thatis,Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother. The young womanwaslovely and beautiful. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.
The Bible does not say who her father was. Her uncle's name was Mordecai.
She was an orphan. but his name was Abihail Her mother is not mentioned Esther was adopted by her cousin, Mordecai.(Esther 2:5-7)
Mordecai, one of the Jews exiled to Babylonia after the First Destruction, was the cousin of Queen Esther. He was one of the leading Jewish sages of the time. His deeds are recounted at length in the Book of Esther (and are too many to list here). By the end of the reign of King Ahaseurus, Mordecai had become viceroy to the King.
There is no mention of Esther having siblings in the Bible. She is described as an orphan who was raised by her cousin Mordecai.
Mordecai's age is not stated in the Bible, but Albert Barnes in his 'Notes on the Bible" saysThe age of Mordecai at the accession of Xerxes may probably have been about 30 or 40; that of Esther, his first cousin, about 20.
All the Bible says is that her parents were dead and Mordecai was her uncle.