Log inStart 7-Day Trial
HebrewH0783Proper Noun (Masculine)

אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתָּא

ar.tach.shash.ta

14Occurrences
H0783Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Artachshasta (or Artaxerxes), a title (rather than name) of several Persian kings

or אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתְּא; or by permutation אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא; of foreign origin;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Also named: ar.tach.shash.ta (*אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא *"Artaxerxes" H0783) § Artaxerxes = "I will make the spoiled to boil: I will stir myself (in) winter" son and successor of Xerxes as emperor of Persia, 465-424 BC

Go beyond grammar.

See how this word works across context, usage, and meaning with AI-assisted word study built for serious Bible study.

Context-aware insightsOriginal language depthFast, practical workflow
Try Lumenology for Free

Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתָּא appears 14 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezra
11
Nehemiah
3

Key Passages

Ezra 4:7BSB

And in the days of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his associates wrote a letter to Artaxerxes. It was written in Aramaic and then translated.

Ezra 4:11BSB

(This is the text of the letter they sent to him.)To King Artaxerxes,From your servants, the men west of the Euphrates:

Ezra 6:14BSB

So the Jewish elders built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo.They finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.

Ezra 7:7BSB

So in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes, he went up to Jerusalem with some of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants.

Ezra 7:12BSB

Artaxerxes, king of kings.To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven:Greetings.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.