Lexicon Artachshashta': Artaxerxes Original Word: אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתָּאPart of Speech: Proper Name Masculine Transliteration: Artachshashta' Phonetic Spelling: (ar-takh-shash-taw') Short Definition: Artaxerxes Brown-Driver-Briggs אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתָּא proper name, masculine Artaxerxes (Persian Artakhshatrâ, Spieg APK 68, 207 ᵐ5 Ἀρταξερξης, compare BeRy on Ezra 4:23; Ezra 7:1f.; Nehemiah 1:1) ׳א Ezra 4:7 see BD 102; אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא Ezra 4:7, אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא Ezra 7:1,11; Ezra 8:1; Nehemiah 2:1; Nehemiah 5:14; Nehemiah 13:6; Artaxerxes I, or Longimanus, son & successor of Xerxes, reigned B.C. 465-424. אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא proper name, masculine of king, Ezra 4:8,11,23; Ezra 6:14 = שַׁסְתְּא- Ezra 7:12,21 (Biblical Hebrew שַׁשְׂתָּא-; Egyptian Aramaic ארתחשסש RES438, S-CB2+; see also AndrM 54* Schefti. 79); — Αρσαρθα, Α(ρ)σαθαθα, Αρθασαθα; ᵐ5L Αρταξερξης.
Strong's Artaxerxes Or Artachshasht {ar-takh- shasht'}; or by permutation Artachshactu {ar-takh-shast'}; of foreign origin; Artachshasta (or Artaxerxes), a title (rather than name) of several Persian kings -- Artaxerxes. |
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