BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H783
ar.tach.shash.ta — Artaxerxes
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.6.14 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
14 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H5166
ne.chem.yah — Nehemiah
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.2 § Nehemiah = "Jehovah comforts" 1) the son of Hachaliah, cupbearer to king Artaxerxes, who became governor of Judah after the return from exile 2) one of the 12 heads of the people who returned from exile with Zerubbabel 3) son of Azbuk and ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, who helped to repair the wall of Jerusalem
8 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H2870
ta.ve.el — Tabeel
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezr.4.7 § Tabeal = "God is good" an officer of the Persian government in Samaria in the reign of Artaxerxes
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H4990
mit.re.dat — Mithredath
A man living at the time of Exile and Return, only mentioned at Ezr.1.8 § Mithredath = "given by Mithra" 1) treasurer of king Cyrus of Persia 2) a Persian officer stationed at Samaria in the time of Artaxerxes
2 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →The Greek form of the name of several Persian kings. (1.) The king who obstructed the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 4:7). He was probably the Smerdis of profane history. (2.) The king mentioned in Ezra 7:1, in the seventh year (B.C. 458) of whose reign Ezra led a second colony of Jews back to Jerusalem, was probably Longimanus, who reigned for forty years (B.C. 464-425); the grandson of Darius, who, fourteen years later, permitted Nehemiah to return and rebuild Jerusalem.
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
