Dict: smith - SHIMSHAI, OR SHIMSHAI

smith:

SHIMSHAI, OR SHIMSHAI - S>@ - (sunny), the scribe or secretary of Kehum, who was a kind of satrap of the conquered province of Judea and of the colony of Samaria, supported by the Persian court. kjv@Ezra:4:8 kjv@Ezra:4:13,17,23) He was apparently an Aramaean, for the letter which he wrote to Artaxerxes was in Syriac. kjv@Ezra:4:7) (B.C. 529.)