Sheshunogunde, in Hindft mythology, is the wife of Waishia, second son of the first man (Puru), from whom the mercantile caste is descended. She was cre- ated by Brahma in the lands of the South.
Sheth (Heb. id. PTIJ), the form of two names, one more accurate than that elsewhere, the other doubtful.
1. The patriarch Seth (1 Chron. i, 1).
2. In the A. V. of Numb, xxiv, 17, r^ is rendered as a proper name, but there is reason to regard it as an appellative, and to translate, instead of " the sons of Sheth," "the sons of tumult," the wild warriors of Moab, for in the parallel passage (Jer. xlviii, 4.")) "NW^ shaon, " tumult," occupies the place of sheth. PIT, sheth, is thus equivalent to rK^\ sheth, as in Lam. iii, 47. Ewald proposes, very unnecessarily, to read T'lJ, setk=^ rxb, and to translate " the sons of haughtiness" {Hoch- muthssohne). Rashi takes the word as a proper name, and refers it to Seth the son of Adam ; and this seems to have been the view taken by Onkelos, who renders "he shall rule all the sons of men." The Jerusalem Targum
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gives "all the sons of the East;" the Targum of Jona- than ben-Uzziel retains the Hebrew word Sheth, ami explains it "of the armies of (.Jog who were to set them- selves in battle array against Israel." — Smith.
She'thar (Ueb.S/ietkur', "^r^S Persic fors^tjr, like acTiif) [(iesen. ], or Zend s/iw/Za'ao =" commander" [Fiirst] : Sept. ^apaaBdlof; v. r. ^appka^eoQ, etc.), sec- ond named of the seven princes of Persia and Media, who had access to the king's jiresence, and were the first men in the kingdom, in the third year of Xerxes (Esth. i, 14). B.C.4^f3. Comp. Ezra vii, 14 and the £7rra roJv Uepauiv tTriaij^oi of Ctesias (14), and the statement of Herodotus (iii, 84) with regard to the seven noble Per- sians who slew Smerdis, that it was granted to them as a privilege t<> have access to the king's presence at all times, without being sent fur, except when he was with the women; and that the king might only take a wife from one of these seven families. See Cahshena; Esther.
She'thar-boz'nai (Chald. Sli€thn7-' Bozenay', "'JT'a "Tw, Persic = sldiiiiig star [comp. Oppert. Jour. Asiatique, 1851, p. 400] ; Sept. 'S.uSrap-tiov'^ai'at V. r. -^av. etc.), a Persian officer of rank, having a com- mand in the province "on this side the river" under Tatnai (q. v.) the satrap (rn3), in the reign of Darius Hystaspis (Ezra v, 3, 6 ; vi, G, 13). B.C. 520. He joined with Tatnai and the Apharsachites in trying to obstruct the progress of the Temple in the time of Ze- rubbahel, and in writing a letter to Darius, of which a copy is preserved in Ezra v, in which they reported that "the hou>e of the great God" in Jud;ea was in process of being built with great stones, and that the work was going on fast, on the alleged authority of a decree from Cvrus. They requested that search might be made in the rolls court whether such a decree was ever given, and asked fur the king's pleasure in the matter. The decree was found at Ecbatana, and a letter was sent to Tatnai and Shethar-boznai from Darius, ordering them no more to obstruct, but, on the contrary', to aid, the el- ders of the .Jews in rebuilding the'Teniple by supplying them both with money and with beasts, corn, salt, wine, and oil. f<ir the sacrifices. Shethar-boznai after the re- ceipt of this decree offered no further obstruction to the Jews. The account of the Jewish prosperity in vi, 14-22 would indicate that the Persian governors acted fully up to the spirit of their instructions from the king. See" Ezra.
As regards the name Shethar-boznai, it seems to be certainlv Persian. The first element of it appears as the name Shcthnr. one of the seven Persian princes in Esth. i, 14. It is perhaps also contained in the name Pharna-zathres (Herod, vii, 65); and the whole name is not unlike S<iti-b(irz(ines, a Persian in the time of Artaxerxes Mnemon (Ctesias, .57). If the names of the Persian officers mentioned in the book of Ezra could be identified in any inscri|)tions or other records of the reigns of Darius. Xerxes, and Artaxerxes, it would be of immense value in clearing up the ditiiculties of thai book. — Smith. "The Persian alliteration of the name in cuneiform characters was probably C/iitnibiir.iliann, a word which the (ireeks would have most properly rendered l)y Yirpai^apCavqc (comj). the }L.a^ap^'i<wZ(i- vai of the .Sept.). ('Iiitr(ilntrsli(in<i wmdd be formed fmm r/iilni. ' race,' ' family,' and Ixirshdna, a cognate form with the Zend berez, 'splendid'" (Speaker's Com- minilary, ad loc).
She'va (Ileb. text Sheyn', X^tt', margin Sheva', X1^" in Sam.), the name of two Hebrews.
i. (Sept. i'rtoii v. r. "S-aovX ; Vulg. .S'wc.) Last named of the four sons of Caleb ben-Hezron by his conciitjine Maachah. He was the " fatlier," i. e. founder or chiff. of Machliena and (Jihea (1 Chron. ii,49). P.CJ. cir. 1(112.
2. (Sept. i'owff" V. r. '\aovQ.) 'I'hc scribe or royal
secretary of David (2 Sam. xx, 25); elsewhere called Seraiah (2 Sam. viii, 17), Shisha (I Kings iv, 3), and Shavsha (1 Chron. xvi, 18).
Shew-bread. See Show-bread.