Shimshai in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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. Ezr 4:8,13,17,23 He was apparently an Aramaean, for the letter which he wrote to Artaxerxes was in Syriac. Ezr 4:7 (B.C. 529.)

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