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Shaashgaz
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Shaashgaz: NET NIV NRSV NASBSha-Ashgaz: AVS TEV
the eunuch official in charge of king Ahasuerus' concubines
he that presses the fleece; that shears the sheep
he that presses the fleece; that shears the sheep
Hebrew
Strongs #08190: zgvev Sha`ashgaz
Shaashgaz = "servant of the beautiful"1) the eunuch in the palace of Xerxes who was in charge of the women
in the 2nd house
8190 Sha`ashgaz shah-ash-gaz'
of Persian derivation; Shaashgaz, a eunuch ofXerxes:-Shaashgaz.
Shaashgaz [EBD]
servant of the beautiful, a chief eunuch in the second house of the harem of king Ahasuerus (Esther 2:14).
Shaashgaz [NAVE]
SHAASHGAZ, a chamberlain of Ahasuerus, Esth. 2:14.SHAASHGAZ [ISBE]
SHAASHGAZ - sha-ash'-gaz (sha`ashgaz; Septuagint reads Gai, the same name it gives to the official referred to in Est 2:8,15; the name may go back to the Old Bactrian word Sasakshant, "one anxious to learn" (Scheft); most commentators suggest no explanation): A chamberlain of Ahasuerus, king of Persia; as keeper of "the second house of women," he had Esther under his charge (2:14).