artachshashta · Artaxerxes

What it means

artachshashta (אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתָּא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Artaxerxes”.

A name borne by several kings of Persia. In Ezra and Nehemiah, the king under whom the building was stopped and, later, the one who sent Ezra and Nehemiah.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Where it appears

• Ezra×12
• Nehemiah×3

• Ezra 4:7

  And in the days of Artaxerxes Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated in Aramaic.

• Ezra 4:8

  Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king as follows:

• Ezra 4:11

  This is the copy of the letter that they sent to him: “To Artaxerxes the king: your servants, the men of the other side of the river. And now:

• Ezra 4:23

  Then, as soon as the copy of the letter of Artaxerxes the king was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem, to the Jews, and made them cease by force and with troops.

• Ezra 6:14

  And the elders of the Jews were building and prospering through the prophecy of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo; and they built and finished by the order of the Elah of Israel and by the order of Cyrus and Darius and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

• Ezra 7:1

  And after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

• Ezra 7:7

  And there went up some of the sons of Israel and of the priests and the Levites and the singers and the gatekeepers and the Nethinim to Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

• Ezra 7:11

  And this is the copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest, the scribe, a scribe of the words of the commandments of YHWH and of his statutes for Israel:

• Ezra 7:12

  “Artaxerxes, king of kings, to Ezra the priest, scribe of the law of the Elah of the heavens: complete peace. And now:

• Ezra 7:21

  And by me, I, Artaxerxes the king, an order is given to all the treasurers who are in the other side of the river, that all that Ezra the priest, scribe of the law of the Elah of the heavens, asks of you be done with diligence,

• Ezra 8:1

  And these are the heads of their fathers’ houses, and the genealogical record of those who went up with me in the reign of Artaxerxes the king from Babylon:

• Nehemiah 2:1

  And it happened in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him, and I took up the wine and gave it to the king; and I had not been sad before him.

• Nehemiah 5:14

  Also, from the day that I was commanded to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, twelve years, I and my brothers did not eat the bread of the governor.

• Nehemiah 13:6

  And during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had gone to the king; and at the end of some days I asked leave of the king

And 1 more times.