Artaxerxes

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Artaxerxes
       n 1: king of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made
            peace with Sparta (?-359 BC) [syn: {Artaxerxes II}]
       2: king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in
          Jerusalem (?-424 BC) [syn: {Artaxerxes I}]



From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Artaxerxes
     the Greek form of the name of several Persian kings. (1.) The
     king who obstructed the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 4:7). He
     was probably the Smerdis of profane history.
     
       (2.) The king mentioned in Ezra 7:1, in the seventh year (B.C.
     458) of whose reign Ezra led a second colony of Jews back to
     Jerusalem, was probably Longimanus, who reigned for forty years
     (B.C. 464-425); the grandson of Darius, who, fourteen years
     later, permitted Nehemiah to return and rebuild Jerusalem.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Artaxerxes, the silence of light; fervent to spoil