שְׁתַר בּוֹזְנַי
Shethar-boznai
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H8370 appears — 4 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 4 verses
- Ezra 5:3 וּ/שְׁתַ֥ר בּוֹזְנַ֖י conj + n Proper n Proper At the same time came to them Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and their companions, and said thus to them, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?
- Ezra 5:6 וּ/שְׁתַ֤ר בּוֹזְנַי֙ conj + n Proper n Proper The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, and Shetharbozenai, and his companions the Apharsachites, who were beyond the River, sent to Darius the king;
- Ezra 6:6 שְׁתַ֤ר בּוֹזְנַי֙ n Proper n Proper Now therefore, Tattenai, governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and your companions the Apharsachites, who are beyond the River, be you far from there:
- Ezra 6:13 שְׁתַ֥ר בּוֹזְנַ֖י n Proper n Proper Then Tattenai, the governor beyond the River, Shetharbozenai, and their companions, because that Darius the king had sent, did accordingly with all diligence.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Shethar-boznai” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name שתר בוזני (Shᵉthar Bôwzᵉnay). With only 4 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Ezra, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Ezra 5:3. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8370 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 4 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Shetharboznai 4×
- American Standard Version: Shethar-bozenai 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shethar-bozenai 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shethar bozenai 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8370 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8370 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8370 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8370 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Shethar-boznai = "star of splendour"
- a Persian officer in the reign of Darius
Word origin
Origin: of foreign derivation
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms H8370 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בּוֹזְנַ֖י | Noun, Proper | Ezra 5:3 | 2 |
| בּוֹזְנַי֙ | Noun, Proper | Ezra 5:6 | 2 |
| וּ/שְׁתַ֤ר | Noun, Proper | Ezra 5:6 | 1 |
| וּ/שְׁתַ֥ר | Noun, Proper | Ezra 5:3 | 1 |
| שְׁתַ֤ר | Noun, Proper | Ezra 6:6 | 1 |
| שְׁתַ֥ר | Noun, Proper | Ezra 6:13 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Shethar-boznai). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Star of splendour, a Persian officer who vainly attempted to hinder the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 5:3, 6; 6:6, 13).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(Pers. star of splendor), a Persian officer of rank in the reign of Darius Hystaspes. (Ezra 5:3,6; 6:6,13) (B.C. 320.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
that makes to rot; that seeks those who despise me
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
