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SHESHBAZZAR
indeed, ' Jarhu' war supposed to be etymologically akin
to Jerahrneel (as a hypocollrcicon) is a matter fur conjecture.
s. A. C.
SHEWBREAD
'The Mi~riter or Curhirer were among Israel's chief foes.
Most, however, with Dillmann, interpret jnx#?) in
the sense of ' tum~~lt' (so RV).
2. 1 Ch. 1 I, Rv SETH (u.v.). T. K. C.
SHETEAR (lQW), in Esth. 1x4, MT, one of the
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'seven Lrinces' at the court of Ahasuerus. eFs
Sama3-bil(or -bni?)-uyur-i.e.. ,O Sun-god
1 CA~CA~AIOC [BuL@I, capfcecoc [A1 seems to re-
~rotect the son' : CD Zaw8auviuor iree I present both SHGTHAR and TAKSHISH. Aceordine to
1 'Marquart (Fund. 69). Shethar comes from -n.,w, h.ith
which, however, compare the 0. Pers. iiyoti~ 'joy.'
This presupposes the nccepted view that the scene of
the first ele&nt in the name. The only dkculty in the Esther-story was always laid in Persia, and that
this view is the w for Ass. r ; but this is hardly insuperconsequently
the names may be exp-trd to have a
able. Acceotine . .. 6's - form Sanabasrar for Sheshbazzar
Persian appearance. For another explanation see
we are enabled to accept the very plausible identification
PL.RIM, 5 3. and cp TAXBHISH.
afSan(a)basiar withshenazzar (I Ch. 3.8). first proposed
by lmbert (1888.89). and accepted by Sir H. Howorth, SFLETEAR-BOPrAI. RV SHETHA~-BOZEN~
Renm, and Ed. Meyer(Bnt. dnl Jud. 7,fl). Upon this +)lia, caeapBoyzawa. -AN [B]. -NAI. -NE [A]. ~APhypotherir
San(a)barrar was not identical with Zerub- Boyza~aloc [L]). The name of a Persian (?) official.
babel iso van Hoonaeker. Wellhaurenl. ,, hut his uncle mentioned with Tattenai. Ezra536 66x3 r Erd.63
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and predecessor That SANRAL.L*T (q-v.) and the firrt (anOpogou(m~~~ [B.4], -Po(. [L]) 7 (-PoupC [B], -pou(.
governor of the Jews should have had names com- [.4], -flu( [Ll) 627 71 (-@out. [BA]. -puC. [LI). AV
pounded with Sin would be a striking coincidence. But SArxaaSazANEs. Four explanations may be menthough
this may have been the Learned redactor's mean- tioned : the fourth assumes that underlying the present
ing, it is doubtful whether the original narrator intended narrative there is an earlier story of the relations between
it. The chief captivity may have been in N. Arabia. the Jews and the N Arndian governors.
In this case the firrt part of the name Sherhbazzar would (I) Shethar-boznai may be a corruption of r>nlulc=
represent (Curh in N. Arabia) ; the second part MtOpopou[dvnr,Old Perr. 'Mithrobauzana'-i,r., ' having
might possibly come from mw (Zarephath). Cp redemption through the Mithra." (2) Marquart takrs a
SmNazzan, ZenuseneEL.
different view (Fs'und. 53 f ). He equates mYi with Old
In Ezra18 Sheshbazzar is called loosely 'prince of
Judah' (a?rn,j x.3); in 514 he is called 'governor'
Per9.p ('see," brilliance')
pun ed with thlr word.2
and quotes names com~
(3) Wincklrr (Xohut Semitic
a, (a$ the same title which is given to Studier, 34 f ), however, considers that 713 mu may tx
the title of an official (eg, chief clerk of the chancery),
Zerubbabel in Haggai (11 zr 22 =I). He
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is raid to have received from Cyrus'r official the sacred
and compares the inscription on a weight from Abydos,
vessels which Nebuchadrerrar had taken away with a
where wnc, wmn is attested as such a title. In this care,
charge to deposit them in the temple at Jerusalem when
for uld we must read ,nw. But the second part of the
it had been rebuilt. In 516 TATTENAI (p.~.) mentions
I title . seems lncorrecfly transmitted. Winckler's reason
that the foundations of the temple had been laid by that i 'e. is not followed, as we should have expected,
Shesbbazrar. Korters fHer~tcl . ??I admits that he is
a description of the office of the person so cnlled.
probably a historical personage, and that he bear. a (4) Upon the theory mentioned above, it is at any rate
Babylonian name, but thinks that he was a Persian.
possible that ,nu comer from wwul (TARSWISH [p.v.]),
and that the Chronicler introduces a Shenazzar into the ' the original of which may be *?de, and isa from ,?$r..
genealogy of Zerubbabelfrom interested motives. That
'Arshurite' and .Cushanite' are two N. Arabian
Sherhbazzar brought back the sacred vessels, and laid 1 ethnics, used . perhaps . ar personal names. See Lrit.
the foundations of the temo1e. Korters denies. On - the
Bib. T. K. C.
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of
the land of the captivity and of the circumstances attend-
%. s. (~tb. u:?); see S~RAT*H (T).
two latter points see in&
bearing in mind the possibility
rr. pp. nxxv. 281 J. but
that different views of
SEEVA (N~w). I. b. Caleb b. Henon, the .father'
MACRBENA (I Ch.Zr9; .rmv [Bl,-A [A], oour [L]).
ing the gradual lightening of the burdens of the Jews
mny have ken taken by the narrator and the redactor SHEWBRE~D (~$181 nn$. Menr hog-gtzim, lit.
respectively. But cp Meyer, Emf. dri Jxd., pp. 7sfl ;
Gulhe, CVI 245 ; Winckler. K.4Tl31 285, with refer.
ences (Sherhbazznr a son of Jehoiachin) : and see EZRA
AND NXHEM~AH [BOOKS], 5 7.
Thp identification of Sherhbamrnnd Shena.rar(Shen'arrar) is
questtoned by Lshr (ThroI. Rwnd$c&u, 1 x81$), hut justified
With the sxceptlon of I K. (I z Ch. 4 '9). a"d ' S. only in P.
Other expresrionr arc (a) Iiiir-r hof-tsmid, ~ mna mi, EV
'the continual br-d'(Nu.4, [PI, oi dpror oi Std iiwrdc); (6)
I. hcnr-,'Zrn&u, z Ch. 9 jz (AVmg. 'bread oi ardenng'),
mnnr&kdh L 2 Ch. 13- (a. i npo6iorur, Vg. as above): (c)
by Ed. ?I?yer (ZATW18313f.). who refzm to the d~eerent
pronunslhflon of the sibilants in Assyrian and Babylonian, and
explxini the differences in the reproduction of there nrmer by
differences of pronunciation. T. K. C.
SHETH (nzi. c~e). I. Nu. 2417t. regarded by
AV. RVW, 6, Vg., Pesh.. z a proper name, on the
asrumption that Seth the son of Adam is intended : this
is in fact the old Jewish tradition-the 'sons of Sheth'
are the (sons of men' (Onk.), the 'armies of Gog'
(pz-Jon.). The assumption is untenable: but at any
rate Sheth must be a proper name. The sceptre of
Israel, we are told. 'shall smite the temples of Moab,
and the crown of the head of all the sons of Sheth.'
The name might come from the Suti, theSyrian Bedouins
mentioned in the Amarna Tablets. But in the parallel
parrage, Jei. 4841, we find [in$ for nd, and this suggests
]$j, 'Cushan' (cp Crir Bib. on Am. 2 ~). For ~:c,
' Moab.' read probably ,re, ' Mi~ur
' (cp hloas, 5 14).
'bread of the faee' or ' presence-bread' (RVmE). See
SACRIFICE, % 14, 34a: RITUAI., 5 2; TEMPLE, 8
16, and ALTAR, 5 lo (8).
e Zp.0~ TOO npom&nou (I S. 217LaI), a. [erl npoamuc (Ex.
402, [where cni occurr alons1, z Ch. 419), a 7. .~.+Qapa~
(r K. 7,s). . i!w"tmr (Ex. 23 30): vg. fienrr ..3m"..30~i*ionir.
I. &, I 5.21 5 ('hallowed [RV "holy "I bread' : a. Z cat).
.timmem (Blitfogg rur fi.csn