shimsha-i or shimshai Summary and Overview
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shimsha-i or shimshai in Smith's 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.)