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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" /> == | ||
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== 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" /> == | ||
