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# תִּרְשָׁתָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8660

**Tirshathâ** — used 5 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

Tirshathâ [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8660/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

תִּרְשָׁתָא: n.m. Tirshathâ [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8660/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Tirshathâ, title of Persian governor in Judaea, according to MeyEntstehung d. Jud. 194 al. = His Excellency (read Tarshathâ) otherwise LagSymm. i. 60 (cf. Arm, Stud. §§ 280, 1680).—As Meyl.c., Scheft93 f. (tarśta, the feared, revered) MossHast. DB Tirshatha CheEncy. Bib. Id.;—הַתּ׳ Ezr 2:63 = Ne 7:65, Ne 7:69 (Baer Gi; v 70 van d. H.); of Nehemiah Ne 8:9; 10:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: governor (5).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.2/#tree)

וְעַ֖ל הַחֲתוּמִ֑ים נְחֶמְיָ֧ה הַתִּרְשָׁ֛תָא בֶּן־חֲכַלְיָ֖ה וְצִדְקִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] on the.sealed \[documents\] Nehemiah the governor the.son of.Hacaliah and Zedekiah

*JPS 1917:* Now those that set their seal were: Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zedekiah;

[Ezra 2:63](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.63/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.63/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הַתִּרְשָׁ֙תָא֙ לָהֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־יֹאכְל֖וּ מִקֹּ֣דֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁ֑ים עַ֛ד עֲמֹ֥ד כֹּהֵ֖ן לְאוּרִ֥ים וּלְתֻמִּֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the governor to them (cmp) not they.will.eat any of.the.holy.thing of the.holy.things until will.arise a.priest to Urim and to Thummim

*JPS 1917:* And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, till there stood up a priest with Urim and with Thummim.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1514/8660/): 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).