Talmai — Addition F 3: Interpretation: the spring that became a river is Esther.
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Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.10.1-10

GREEK: ἡ μικρὰ πηγὴ ἣ ἐγένετο ποταμός, καὶ ἦν φῶς καὶ ἥλιος καὶ ὕδωρ πολύ· Ἐσθήρ ἐστιν ὁ ποταμός, ἣν ἐγάμησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ ἐποίησεν βασίλισσαν·
ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): The little spring that became a river, and there was light and sun and much water -- Esther is the river, whom the king married and made queen.

PARALLELS:
- [Verbatim] Tosefet le-Esther, פתרון החלום (Tosefet le-Esther (he.wikisource editorial page: Additions to Esther in Hebrew)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'המעין היה לנהר גדול... היא אסתר אשר לקחה המלך לאשה' renders Addition F's allegorical identification of the river with Esther, a device foreign to MT.
- [Flagged] Esther Rabbah 8:5 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: medieval retranslation. The spring-becomes-river/light/sun imagery recurs in the same retelling, matching Addition F's identification scene, though ER does not supply F's explicit interpretive key (spring = Esther) — the imagery is specific and non-MT even without the naming.
- [Flagged] Aramaic Targum to Esther 10:3 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. At the very verse Addition F glosses, the targum applies bright-star and dawn imagery to Mordecai, matching the plus's 'light and sun rose' interpretation of the dream.
- [Motif] Megillah 11a:2 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Same water-abundance imagery ('brought us to saturation... in the days of Haman') applied specifically to the Esther deliverance, matching the plus's spring-become-river dream image now identified as Esther.
- [Motif] Megillah 10b:23 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'The myrtle shall come up -- this is righteous Esther' performs the same allegorical decoding (natural image = Esther) that the plus's dream interpretation performs with the river.
- [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 13a:12:1 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Explaining Esther's name via a luminary ('a moon fair as the moon') is the same move Addition F makes reading the dream's light/sun/water as Esther.
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 2:7 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. Hadassah is glossed via Zech 1:8 ('standing among the myrtles in the deep [metzulah]') and Isa 44:27 ('who says to the deep, be dry') -- Esther figured specifically by deep water, matching Addition F's identification of Esther as the river that grew from the small spring.