Star of Venus, the wife of Haman, whom she instigated to prepare a gallows for Mordecai (Esther 5:10).
Zeresh
When Haman came home swollen with pride, he gathered his friends and his wife Zeresh and listed his riches, his many children and his place above the princes. Yet all of it, he said, “availeth me nothing” while Mordecai the Jew sat at the king’s gate. Zeresh answered with a plan: build a gallows fifty cubits high and ask the king to hang Mordecai on it. Later, when Haman’s luck turned, she and his wise men warned that if Mordecai was of the seed of the Jews he would surely prevail. She is a small part of Esther’s story, and a voice that first fed Haman’s anger and then foresaw his fall.
6 verses
Esther
Esther 5:10
Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
Esther 5:11
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
Esther 5:12
Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.
Esther 5:13
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Esther 5:14
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Esther 6:13
And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884
(gold), the wife of Haman the Agagite. (Esther 5:10,14; 6:13) (B.C. 475.)