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# אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H783

**Artaxerxes** — used 9 times in the Hebrew 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/tanakh/1488/783/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתָּא: n.pr.m. Artaxerxes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/783/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Artaxerxes (Pers. Artakhshatrâ, SpiegAPK 68, 207 𝔊 Ἀρταξερξης, cf. BeRy on Ezr 4:23; 7:1 f. Ne 1:1) א׳ Ezr 4:7 v. BD 102; אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא Ezr 4:7, 23, אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא Ezr 7:1, 11; 8:1 Ne 2:1; 5:14; 13:6; Artaxerxes I, or Longimanus, son & successor of Xerxes, regined b.c. 465–424.

Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Artaxerxes (6); of Artaxerxes (3).

## In the verses

[Ezra 7:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.1/#tree)

וְאַחַר֙ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה בְּמַלְכ֖וּת אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֣סְתְּא מֶֽלֶךְ־פָּרָ֑ס עֶזְרָא֙ בֶּן־שְׂרָיָ֔ה בֶּן־עֲזַרְיָ֖ה בֶּן־חִלְקִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and after the things (the) these in the.reign of.Artaxerxes the.king of.Persia Ezra the.son of.Seraiah the.son of.Azariah the.son of.Hilkiah

*JPS 1917:* Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

[Ezra 8:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.1/#tree)

וְאֵ֛לֶּה רָאשֵׁ֥י אֲבֹתֵיהֶ֖ם וְהִתְיַחְשָׂ֑ם הָעֹלִ֣ים עִמִּ֗י בְּמַלְכ֛וּת אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥סְתְּא הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מִבָּבֶֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and these \[are\].the.heads their.fathers their and their.genealogical enrolment \[who\].came up with me in the.reign of.Artaxerxes the king from Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Now these are the heads of their fathers' houses, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/783.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/783/): 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).