This is the name of Shimshai: Scribe who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem.
Definition
(Aramaic) from H8122; sunny; Shimshai, a Samaritan
Traditional renderings: Shimshai.
Traditional renderings: Shimshai.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
4 total
- Ezra 4:8וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙ · and ShimshaiRehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
- Ezra 4:9וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙ · ShimshaiFrom Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates—the judges and officials over Tripolis, Persia, Erech and Babylon, the Elamites of Susa,
- Ezra 4:17וְשִׁמְשַׁ֣י · ShimshaiThen the king sent this reply: To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of your associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in the region west of the Euphrates: Greetings.
- Ezra 4:23וְשִׁמְשַׁ֥י · ShimshaiWhen the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.