Word Study · Strong's H8124 · Hebrew
שִׁמְשַׁי
Shimshay
shim-shah'-ee
“Shimshai, a Samaritan”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Shimshai, a Samaritan
Rendered in the KJV as
Shimshai.
- 4occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 1 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 3inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 4 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 3
- וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙2
- וְשִׁמְשַׁ֣י1
- וְשִׁמְשַׁ֥י1
How it is rendered · 1
- and Shimshai4
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 1
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)4
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- AC/Npm · 4
All 4, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Ezra4 occurrences
- Ezra 4:8וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙veshimshaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote the letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows:here: and Shimshai
- Ezra 4:9וְשִׁמְשַׁי֙veshimshaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)From Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their associates—the judges and officials over Tripolis, Persia, Erech and Babylon, the Elamites of Susa,here: and Shimshai
- Ezra 4:17וְשִׁמְשַׁ֣יveshimshaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Then the king sent this reply: To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of your associates living in Samaria and elsewhere in the region west of the Euphrates: Greetings.here: and Shimshai
- Ezra 4:23וְשִׁמְשַׁ֥יveshimshaiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)When the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.here: and Shimshai