Aramaic word · H8124
שִׁמְשַׁי
veshimshai
Shimshai
A Biblical Aramaic word, from the parts of the Old Testament written in Aramaic. Why Aramaic?
Appears 4 times in 4 verses of the Aramaic of the Old Testament.
Where it appears
Ezra · 4
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Ezra 4:8 וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙ and Shimshai
Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:
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Ezra 4:9 וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙ and Shimshai
From Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates—the judges and officials over Tripolis, Persia, Erech and Babylon, the Elamites of Susa,
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Ezra 4:17 וְשִׁמְשַׁ֣י and Shimshai
Then the king sent this reply: To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of your associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in the region west of the Euphrates: Greetings.
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Ezra 4:23 וְשִׁמְשַׁ֥י and Shimshai
When the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.
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