Bible Person

Hammedatha

Meaning: he that troubles the law · Male · 5 cross references

Hammedatha is remembered as the father of Haman in the book of Esther. His own role is slight, but his name remains attached to one of the Bible's most dangerous enemies of the Jewish people. First appears in Esth 3:1.1

AI summary: Hammedatha matters because the cross references preserve him through repeated identification of Haman, which helps fix Haman's lineage and hostility in the narrative memory of Esther. Even when the father does not act, the patronymic contributes to the formal weight and repeated naming of the threat. His significance is therefore derivative but real. Taken together, the material presents Hammedatha as the remembered father of Haman, bound to the story through that association.1

Central Figure

Hammedatha

Meaning: he that troubles the law

Father of Haman, designated usually “the Agagite” (Esther 3:1, 10; 8:5).