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Lexicon :: Strong's H783 - 'artaḥšaštᵊ'

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אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתְּא
Transliteration
'artaḥšaštᵊ'
Pronunciation
ar-takh-shash-taw'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of foreign origin
Strong’s Definitions

אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתָּא ʼArtachshashtâʼ, ar-takh-shash-taw'; or אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתְּא ʼArtachshashtᵉʼ; or by permutation אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא ʼArtachshaçtᵉʼ; of foreign origin; Artachshasta (or Artaxerxes), a title (rather than name) of several Persian kings:—Artaxerxes.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x

The KJV translates Strong's H783 in the following manner: Artaxerxes (15x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 15x
The KJV translates Strong's H783 in the following manner: Artaxerxes (15x).

  1. Artaxerxes = "I will make the spoiled to boil: I will stir myself (in) winter"

    1. son and successor of Xerxes as emperor of Persia, 465-424 BC

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתָּא ʼArtachshashtâʼ, ar-takh-shash-taw'; or אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתְּא ʼArtachshashtᵉʼ; or by permutation אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא ʼArtachshaçtᵉʼ; of foreign origin; Artachshasta (or Artaxerxes), a title (rather than name) of several Persian kings:—Artaxerxes.
STRONGS H783: Abbreviations
† אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתָּא proper name, masculine Artaxerxes (Persian Artakhshatrâ, SpiegAPK 68, 207 Greek Version of the LXX Ἀρταξερξης, compare BeRy on Ezra 4:23; Ezra 7:1f.; Nehemiah 1:1) א׳ Ezra 4:7 see BD102; אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא Ezra 4:7, אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא Ezra 7:1, 11; Ezra 8:1; Nehemiah 2:1; Nehemiah 5:14; Nehemiah 13:6; Artaxerxes I, or Longimanus, son & successor of Xerxes, reigned B.C. 465-424.

Biblical Aramaic

אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא proper name, masculine of king, Ezra 4:8, 11, 23; Ezra 6:14 = שַׁסְתְּא- Ezra 7:12, 21 (Biblical Hebrew שַׁשְׂתָּא-; Egyptian Aramaic ארתחשסש RES438, S-CB2+; see also AndrM 54* Schefti. 79); — Αρσαρθα, Α(ρ)σαθαθα, Αρθασαθα; LXX of Lucian (Lag.) Αρταξερξης.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ezra

4:7; 4:7; 4:8; 4:11; 4:23; 4:23; 6:14; 7:1; 7:1; 7:11; 7:12; 7:21; 8:1

Nehemiah

1:1; 2:1; 5:14; 13:6

H783

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Strong's Number H783 matches the Hebrew אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתְּא ('artaḥšaštᵊ'),
which occurs 17 times in 14 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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During the time of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel and the rest of his colleagues wrote to King Artaxerxes. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated.[fn]

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Rehum the chief deputy and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter to King Artaxerxes concerning Jerusalem as follows:

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This is the text of the letter they sent to him:

To King Artaxerxes from your servants, the men from the region west of the Euphrates River:

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As soon as the text of King Artaxerxes’s letter was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their colleagues, they immediately went to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.

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So the Jewish elders continued successfully with the building under the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished the building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and King Artaxerxes of Persia.

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After these events, during the reign of King Artaxerxes of Persia, Ezra —

Seraiah’s son, Azariah’s son,

Hilkiah’s son,

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Some of the Israelites, priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, and temple servants accompanied him to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes.

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This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in matters of the LORD’s commands and statutes for Israel:[fn]

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Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, an expert in the law of the God of the heavens:

Greetings.

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I, King Artaxerxes, issue a decree to all the treasurers in the region west of the Euphrates River:

Whatever Ezra the priest, an expert in the law of the God of the heavens, asks of you must be provided in full,

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These are the family heads and the genealogical records of those who returned with me from Babylon during the reign of King Artaxerxes:

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During the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was set before him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had never been sad in his presence,

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Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah ​— ​from the twentieth year until his thirty-second year, twelve years ​— ​I and my associates never ate from the food allotted to the governor.

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While all this was happening, I was not in Jerusalem, because I had returned to King Artaxerxes of Babylon in the thirty-second year of his reign. It was only later that I asked the king for a leave of absence

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