Shimshai
[Then] sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and
[to] Shimshai the scribe, and [to] the rest of their
companions that dwell in Samaria, and [unto] the rest beyond
the river, Peace, and at such a time....
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Then [wrote] Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe,
and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the
Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the
Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites,
[and] the Elamites,...
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Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes' letter [was] read before
Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they
went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to
cease by force and power....
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Shimshai was a scribe who was represented the peoples listed
in Ezra 4:9-10 in a letter to King Artaxerxes....
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shim'-shi, shim'-sha-i (shimshay; Codex Vaticanus Samasa,
Samae, Sameais Samesa; Codex Alexandrinus Samsai; Lucian,
Samaias, throughout; in 1 Esdras 2:17 he is called
"Semellius," the Revised Version (British and American)
"Samellius"; a number of explanations of this name have been
offered, but no one has been generally favored. One conjectur...
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(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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the shining one, or sunny, the secretary of Rehum the
chancellor, who took part in opposing the rebuilding
of the
temple after the Captivity (Ezra 4:8, 9, 17-23)....
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The scribe of Rehum, the royal prefect of Judaea; he joined in
writing in Syriac to Artaxerxes to stop the building of the
temple and city (Ezra 4:7-24)....
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