Bishlam

In Bible versions:

Bishlam: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV

a man who was an opponent to Zerubbabel's rebuilding the temple

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in peace

Hebrew

Strongs #01312: Mlvb Bishlam

Bishlam = "in peace"

1) a Persian officer in Palestine in the time of Ezra

1312 Bishlam bish-lawm'

of foreign derivation; Bishlam, a Pers.:-Bishlam.

Bishlam [NAVE]

BISHLAM, a Samaritan who obstructed the rebuilding of the temple at Jerusalem, Ezra 4:7-24.

BISHLAM [ISBE]

BISHLAM - bish'-lam (bishlam, "peaceful" (?)): One of three foreign colonists who wrote a letter of complaint against the Jews to Artaxerxes (Ezr 4:7 = 1 Esdras 2:16). In 1 Esdras the reading is "Belemus." "And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, unto Artaxerxes, king of Persia," etc. (Ezr 4:7). The Septuagint renders Bishlam as en eirene, "in peace," as though it were a phrase rather than a proper name; this is clearly an error.