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HebrewH8124Proper Noun (Masculine)

שִׁמְשַׁי

shim.shay

4Occurrences
H8124Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shimshai, a Samaritan

(Aramaic) from H8122 (שֶׁמֶשׁ); sunny;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at § Shimshai = "sunny" the scribe for Rehum, the satrap of Judea for the Persian government

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

שִׁמְשַׁי appears 4 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezra
4

Key Passages

Ezra 4:8BSB

Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:

Ezra 4:9BSB

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,

Ezra 4:17BSB

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.

Ezra 4:23BSB

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.

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