Ezra 4:8
Rehum, B’el T’em, and Shimshai, the scribe, wrote such an epistle from Jerusalem to king Artaxerxes, on this manner;Ko e veesi ni 'i he māmani mo'oni
'I fē
Ko hai
'I he ngaahi lea fē
- אִגְּרָאʼiggᵉrâʼan epistle (as carried by a state courier or postman)
- בְּעֵלbᵉʻêl{a master; hence, a husband,}
- שִׁמְשַׁיShimshayShimshai, a Samaritan
- כְּתַבkᵉthab{to grave, by implication, to write (describe, inscribe, prescribe, subscribe)}
- סָפֵרçâphêra scribe (secular or sacred)
- רְחוּםRᵉchûwmRechum, the name of a Persian and of three Israelites
- חַדchadas card. one; as article single; as an ordinal, first; adverbially, at once
- אַרְתַּחְשַׁשְׁתָּאʼArtachshashtâʼArtachshasta (or Artaxerxes), a title (rather than name) of several Persian kings
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