Word

שִׁמְשַׁי

Shimshay · H8124 · Hebrew · proper noun · 4 occurrences

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Person

Shimshaifirst named in Ezra 4:84 verses

Meanings

Shimshai

A man who was a scribe after the exile

Examples
Ezra 4:8 Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes, as follows—
Ezra 4:9 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues, the judges and the lesser governors, the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,
Ezra 4:17 Then the king sent a response to Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their colleagues who live in Samaria and in the rest of the provinces beyond the Euphrates River: “Peace. And now,

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 1 groups

סָפֵרscribe 4

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

כְּתַבwrite 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

קֳדָםbefore 2
עַלon, upon, over, against 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: Ezra 4:8 recounts that "Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes."

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8124. Shimshay שִׁמְשַׁי proper name, masculine; — always ׳שׁ סָֽפְרָא: Ezr 4:8-9, Ezr…

H8124. Shimshay
שִׁמְשַׁי proper name, masculine; — always ׳שׁ סָֽפְרָא: Ezr 4:8-9, Ezr 4:17, Ezr 4:23 (AndrM 86 * conjectures Old Iranian caritative ששמי, conformed to שׁמשׁ, compare Scheft92, who, however, prefers Old Baktrian sim¢zhi = sima¢zhi, proper name).
שֵׁן see שׁנן. below

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People4 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0