Shimshai

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shim´shī, shim´shā́-ī (שׁמשׁי, shimshay, "the shining one," or "sunny" ; Codex Vaticanus Σαμασά, Samasá, Σαμαέ, Samaé, Σαμεαίς, Sameaís Σαμεσά, Samesá; Codex Alexandrinus Σαμσαί, Samsaí; Lucian, Σαμαίας, Samaías, 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 conjecture traces it to an Old Iranian caritative שׁשׁמי, conformed to שׁמשׁ; another prefers the Old Bactrian simēzhi = simaēzhi; compare BDB, under the word The name looks as though it were derived from שׁמשׁ, shemesh, “the sun”):

A state secretary of Rehum the chancellor who, with Rehum (which see) and others, wrote to Artaxerxes to persuade him to prohibit the rebuilding of the temple after the Captivity (Ezra 4:8, Ezra 4:9, Ezra 4:17, Ezra 4:23).