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# אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא

Biblical Aramaic

**Artaxerxes** — used 6 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Artaxerxes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5ea_5b7_5bc_5d7_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e9_5b0_5c2_5ea_5b0_5bc_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5ea_5b7_5bc_5d7_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e9_5b0_5c2_5ea_5b0_5bc_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. of king, Ezr 4:8, 11, 23; 6:14 = -שַׁסְתְּא 7:12, 21 (BH -שַׁשְׂתָּא; Egyptian Aramaic ארתחשסש RÉS 438, S-C B2+; v. also Andr M 54\* Scheft i. 79);—Αρσαρθα, Α(ρ)σαθαθα, Αρθασαθα; 𝔊L Αρταξερξης.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: none

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Artaxerxes (6).

## In the verses

[Ezra 4:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.8/#tree)

רְח֣וּם בְּעֵל־טְעֵ֗ם וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙ סָֽפְרָ֔א כְּתַ֛בוּ אִגְּרָ֥ה חֲדָ֖ה עַל־יְרוּשְׁלֶ֑ם לְאַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥שְׂתְּא מַלְכָּ֖א כְּנֵֽמָא׃

*Word for word:* Rehum lord of.command and Shimshai the scribe they.wrote a.letter one concerning Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as.follows

*JPS 1917:* Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort —

[Ezra 7:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.12/#tree)

אַ֨רְתַּחְשַׁ֔סְתְּא מֶ֖לֶךְ מַלְכַיָּ֑א לְעֶזְרָ֣א כָ֠הֲנָא סָפַ֨ר דָּתָ֜א דִּֽי־אֱלָ֧הּ שְׁמַיָּ֛א גְּמִ֖יר וּכְעֶֽנֶת׃

*Word for word:* Artaxerxes the.king of.(the) kings to Ezra the priest the.scribe of the.law (diy).of the.God of the.heavens perfect and now

*JPS 1917:* 'Artaxerxes, king of kings, unto Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven, and so forth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5ea_5b7_5bc_5d7_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e9_5b0_5c2_5ea_5b0_5bc_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b7_5e8_5b0_5ea_5b7_5bc_5d7_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5e9_5b0_5c2_5ea_5b0_5bc_5d0/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).