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== Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_74813" /> == | == Smith's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_74813" /> == | ||
<p> She'thar. (Persian, | <p> '''She'thar.''' ''('' Persian, ''A Star).'' One of the seven princes, of [[Persia]] and Media. Esther 1:14. (B.C. 483). </p> | ||
== Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53844" /> == | == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible <ref name="term_53844" /> == | ||
<p> <strong> | <p> <strong> [[Shethar]] </strong> . One of the seven princes who had the right of access to the royal presence ( Esther 1:14 ). </p> | ||
== Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_37653" /> == | == Fausset's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_37653" /> == | ||
<p> In Xerxes' (Ahasuerus) third year (Esther 1:3-4; compare Ezra 7:14). </p> | <p> In Xerxes' (Ahasuerus) third year ( Esther 1:3-4; compare Ezra 7:14). </p> | ||
== Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_68662" /> == | == Morrish Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_68662" /> == | ||
<p> One of the seven princes of | <p> One of the seven princes of Persia and Media. Esther 1:14 . </p> | ||
== Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_43747" /> == | == Holman Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_43747" /> == | ||
Esther 1:13-14 | Esther 1:13-14 | ||
== Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_33559" /> == | == Easton's Bible Dictionary <ref name="term_33559" /> == | ||
Esther 1:14 | Esther 1:14 | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_60595" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_60595" /> == | ||
<p> (Heb. Shethar', שֵׁתָר, Persic for | <p> (Heb. Shethar', '''''שֵׁתָר''''' , Persic for ''Star,'' like '''''Ἀστρή''''' [Gesen.], or [[Zend]] ''Shathiao'' = "commander" [Furst; Sept. '''''Σαρσαθαὶος''''' v.r. '''''Σαρρέσθεος''''' , etc.), second named of the seven princes of Persia and Media, who had access to the king's presence, and were the first men in the kingdom, in the third year of Xerxes ( Esther 1:14). B.C. 483. Comp. Ezra 7:14 and the '''''Ἑπτὰ''''' '''''Τ''''' '''''Ων''''' '''''Περσ''''' '''''Ων''''' '''''Ἐπίσημοι''''' of [[Ctesias]] (14), and the statement of [[Herodotus]] (3, 84) with regard to the seven noble [[Persians]] who slew Smerdis, that it was granted to them as a privilege to have access to the king's presence at all, times, without being sent for, except when he was with the women; and, that the king might only take a wife from one of these seven families. (See [[Carshena]]); (See [[Esther]]). </p> | ||
== International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_8410" /> == | == International Standard Bible Encyclopedia <ref name="term_8410" /> == | ||
<p> ''''' shē´thar ''''' ( שׁתר , she4thar; | <p> ''''' shē´thar ''''' ( שׁתר , she4thar; Codex Vaticanus and Lucian, Σαρσαθαῖος , <i> ''''' Sarsathaı́os ''''' </i> ; Codex Alexandrinus Σαρέσθεος , <i> ''''' Saréstheos ''''' </i> ): One of the "seven princes" at the court of [[Ahasuerus]] ( Esther 1:14 ); these princes "sat first in the kingdom" and had the right of entrance to the king's presence at any time, except when he was in the company of one of his wives. (According to Marquart, <i> Fund </i> ., 69, Shethar comes from שרשתי , with which the [[Persian]] <i> ''''' šiyātis ''''' </i> , "joy," is to be compared.) The word has never really been satisfactorily explained; it is presumably Persian. </p> | ||
== Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16669" /> == | == Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature <ref name="term_16669" /> == | ||
<p> She´thar (Pers., a star), one of the seven princes of | <p> She´thar (Pers., a star), one of the seven princes of Persia and Media, 'who saw the king's face, and sat the first in the kingdom' . </p> | ||
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