he that troubles the law
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
HAMMEDATHA (Est_3:1; Est_3:10; Est_8:5; Est_9:10; Est_9:24; in Ad. Est 12:6, 16:10, 17 Amadathus).The father of Haman. The name is probably Persian; possibly the etymology is mâh = moondata = given.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Haman's father. Medatha with the definite article, ha-. (See ESTHER; HAMAN.) In Persian, it means "double".
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Hammed'atha. (double). Father of the infamous Haman. Est_3:1; Est_3:10; Est_8:5; Est_9:24.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
ham-ē̇-dā?tha (המּדתא, hammedhāthā'): The father of Haman (Est_3:1). He is generally termed the ?Agagite?; the name is of Persian etymology, signifying ?given by the moon.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Hammedatha
(Heb. Hammedatha', הִמְּדָתָא; Sept. Α᾿μάδαθος, Vulg. Amadathus, but both sometimes omit), father of the infamous Haman (q.v.), and commonly designated as the Agagite (Est_3:1; Est_3:10; Est_8:5; Est_9:24), though also without that title (9, 10). By Gesenius (Lex. 1855, p. 539) the name is taken to be Medatha, preceded by the definite article; but Furst (Lex. s.v.), with more probability, identifies it with the Zendic hamodata, i.e given by Hom, one of the Izeds. For other explanations, see Simonis (Onomasticon, p. 586), who derives it from a Persian word meaning double. For the termination, compare SEE ARIDATHA. B.C. ante 474.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.