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On the seventh day of the banquet, when the king's heart was "merry with wine", the king orders his seven chamberlains to summon Vashti to come before him and his guests wearing her royal crown, in order to display her beauty. While the king holds a magnificent banquet for his princes, nobles and servants, she holds a separate banquet for the women. In the Book of Esther, Vashti is the first wife of King Ahasuerus. Hebrew names that begin with waw are rare because of the etymological tendency for word-initial waw to become yodh. Vashti is one of a very few proper names in the Tanakh that begins with the letter waw, and by far the most prominently mentioned of them.
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Critics of the historicity of the book of Esther proposed that the name may have originated from a conjectured Elamite goddess whom they called "Mashti". Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary of the 19th century, attempting to interpret the name as Hebrew, suggested the meanings "that drinks" or "thread".
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Hoschander proposed that it originated as a shortening of an unattested "vashtateira", which he also proposed as the origin of the name "Stateira". As a modern Persian name it is understood to mean "goodness" but most likely it originated from the reconstructed Old Persian * vaištī, related to the superlative adjective vahišta- "best, excellent" found in the Avesta, with the feminine termination - ī hence "excellent woman, best of women". The meaning of the name Vashti is uncertain.