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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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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And in the days of [fn]Artaxerxes H783, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes H783 king of Persia; and the [fn]text of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated from Aramaic.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 4:8 - [fn]Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes H783, as follows—

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 4:11

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this is the copy of the letter which they sent to him:

“To King Artaxerxes H783: Your servants, the men in the region beyond the River, and now—

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Then as soon as the copy of King Artaxerxes’ H783 document was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their colleagues, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews and stopped them by force and military.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:14 - And the elders of the Jews were building and succeeding through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. So they built and completed it according to the decree of the God of Israel and the decree of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes H783 king of Persia.

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Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes H783 king of Persia, there went up Ezra son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 7:7 - And some of the sons of Israel and some of the priests, the Levites, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants went up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King Artaxerxes H783.

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Now this is the copy of the letter which King Artaxerxes H783 gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, [fn]learned in the words of the commandments of Yahweh and His statutes to Israel:

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“[fn]Artaxerxes H783, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, perfect peace. And now—

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“So I, even I, King Artaxerxes H783, issue a decree to all the treasurers who are in the provinces beyond the [fn]River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may ask of you, it shall be done with all diligence,

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Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households and the genealogical records of those who went up with me from Babylon in the reign of King Artaxerxes H783:

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Now it happened in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes H783, that wine was before him, and I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.

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Moreover, from the day that I was put in command to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year to the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes H783, for twelve years, neither I nor my [fn]relatives have eaten the governor’s food allowance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:6 - But during all this time I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes H783 king of Babylon I had gone to the king. After some time, however, I asked leave from the king,
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