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title: אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא — Artaxerxes · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא (783), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: Artaxerxes. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. Artaxerxes. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא

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«אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Artaxerxes** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 9 times · **Key:** 783 · **BDB:** אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתָּא

### Glosses

Artaxerxes (6); of.Artaxerxes (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Artaxerxes [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/783/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. Artaxerxes [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/783/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. Artaxerxes (Pers. Artakhshatrâ, SpiegAPK 68, 207 𝔊 Ἀρταξερξης, cf. BeRy on Ezr 4:23; 7:1 f. Ne 1:1) א׳ Ezr 4:7 v. BD 102; אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׂתְּא Ezr 4:7, 23, אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא Ezr 7:1, 11; 8:1 Ne 2:1; 5:14; 13:6; Artaxerxes I, or Longimanus, son \& successor of Xerxes, regined b.c. 465–424.

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אַרְתַּחְשַׁסְתְּא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/783/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 7:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.1/)

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וְאַחַר֙ הַדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה בְּמַלְכ֖וּת אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֣סְתְּא מֶֽלֶךְ־פָּרָ֑ס עֶזְרָא֙ בֶּן־שְׂרָיָ֔ה בֶּן־עֲזַרְיָ֖ה בֶּן־חִלְקִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and after the things (the) these in the.reign of.Artaxerxes the.king of.Persia Ezra the.son of.Seraiah the.son of.Azariah the.son of.Hilkiah

*JPS 1917:* Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

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[Ezra 8:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.8.1/)

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וְאֵ֛לֶּה רָאשֵׁ֥י אֲבֹתֵיהֶ֖ם וְהִתְיַחְשָׂ֑ם הָעֹלִ֣ים עִמִּ֗י בְּמַלְכ֛וּת אַרְתַּחְשַׁ֥סְתְּא הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מִבָּבֶֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* and these \[are\].the.heads their.fathers their and their.genealogical enrolment \[who\].came up with me in the.reign of.Artaxerxes the king from Babylon

*JPS 1917:* Now these are the heads of their fathers' houses, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

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