Lexical Definition

‎אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתָּא‎ ʼArtachshashtâʼ (ar-takh-shash-taw') Artaxerxes ^N:N-M-P
or אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתְּא ʼArtachshashtᵉʼ (ar-takh-shasht'); or by permutation אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא ʼArtachshaçtᵉʼ (ar-takh-shast'); of foreign origin

Artaxerxes.

• § Artaxerxes = "I will make the spoiled to boil: I will stir myself (in) winter"
• Artachshasta (or Artaxerxes), a title (rather than name) of several Persian kings

1) son and successor of Xerxes as emperor of Persia, 465-424 BC

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתָּא‎ proper name, masculine Artaxerxes (Persian Artakhshatrâ, Spieg^{APK 68, 207} ᵐ5 Ἀρταξερξης, compare BeRy on Ezra 4:23; Ezra 7:1f.; Neh 1:1) ‎׳‎‎א‎ Ezra 4:7 see BD¹⁰²; ‎אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא‎ Ezra 4:7, ‎אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא‎ Ezra 7:1; Ezra 7:11; Ezra 8:1; Neh 2:1; Neh 5:14; Neh 13:6 Artaxerxes I, or Longimanus, son & successor of Xerxes, reigned B.C. 465-424.

‎אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא‎ proper name, masculine of king, Ezra 4:8; Ezra 4:11; Ezra 4:23; Ezra 6:14 = ‎שַׁסְתְּא‎- Ezra 7:12; Ezra 7:21 (Biblical Hebrew ‎שַׁשְׂתָּא‎-; Egyptian Aramaic ‎ארתחשסש‎ RES⁴³⁸, S-C^B2+; see also Andr^{M 54*} Scheft^{i. 79}); — Αρσαρθα, Α(ρ)σαθαθα, Αρθασαθα; ᵐ5^L Αρταξερξης.

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