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# שִׁמְשַׁי

Biblical Aramaic

**Shimshai** — used 4 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

Shimshai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5de_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁמְשַׁי: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5de_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m.;—always שׁ׳ סָֽפְרָא: Ezr 4:8, 9, 17, 23 (AndrM 86\* conj. OIran. caritative ששמי, conformed to שׁמשׁ, cf. Scheft 92, who, however, prefers OBaktr. simēzhi = simaēzhi, n.pr.).

### Jastrow 1903

שִׁמְשַׁי: Shimshai [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5de_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d9/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** (Ezra IV, 8, a. e.) pr. n. m. Shimshai, a scribe of the Samaritan colony; (in legend) a scribe at the court of Ahasuerus. Targ. II Esth. VI, 1.—Meg. 15ᵇ sq. (ref. to Esth. VI, 2) מלמד שש׳ מוחק וכ׳ this intimates that Sh. had erased (the record in favor of Mordecai), and Gabriel wrote it over. Yalk. Esth. 1045 המן … הוא ש׳ הסופר כלומר ש׳ בנו וכ׳ Haman the wicked, that is Sh. the scribe, that is to say, Sh. the son of Haman; Esth. R. introd.; a. e.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Shimshai (4).

## 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 4:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.4.17/#tree)

פִּתְגָמָ֞א שְׁלַ֣ח מַלְכָּ֗א עַל־רְח֤וּם בְּעֵל־טְעֵם֙ וְשִׁמְשַׁ֣י סָֽפְרָ֔א וּשְׁאָר֙ כְּנָוָ֣תְה֔וֹן דִּ֥י יָתְבִ֖ין בְּשָֽׁמְרָ֑יִן וּשְׁאָ֧ר עֲבַֽר־נַהֲרָ֛ה שְׁלָ֖ם וּכְעֶֽת׃ס

*Word for word:* the word he.sent the king to Rehum lord of.command and Shimshai the scribe and the.rest of their.associates who \[were\].dwelling in Samaria and the.rest of.the.region.beyond the river peace and now

*JPS 1917:* Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the commander, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the River: 'Peace, and now

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5de_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b4_5c1_5de_5b0_5e9_5b7_5c1_5d9/): 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).