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Haman
המן האגגי he
Biblical figure (Book of Esther)
- Child of Hammedatha
- Consort of Zeresh
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Family
The family of Haman
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 7
Kinship in an account 7
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (father) Hammedatha father of Haman in the Book of Esther (Esth 3:1)
- parent of (child) Aridai Biblical figure. One of the ten sons of Haman, who were killed and hanged after their father's downfall.
- parent of (child) Aridatha Biblical figure. One of the ten sons of Haman, who were killed and hanged after their father's downfall.
- parent of (child) Arisai Biblical figure. One of the ten sons of Haman, who were killed and hanged after their father's downfall.
- parent of (child) ten sons of Haman ten sons of Haman, executed alongside their father in the Book of Esther
- parent of (child) Vaizatha biblical human figure, son of Haman
- partner of (spouse) Zeresh wife of Haman in the Book of Esther; advises him to prepare gallows to hang Mordecai (Book of Esther)
Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Connections
How Haman connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 2
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
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Sources
Sources and evidence
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10 statements on this record
- 10 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
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- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 2 collection memberships. Each is marked where it is shown.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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