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An officer of Artaxerxes residing in Pal., 1Es 2:16; 1Es 2:25 (Septuagint 1Es 2:15; 1Es 2:21). It is not a proper name, but a title of Rehum, the name immediately preceding it in Ezr 4:8. It is a corruption of be'
Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king after this sort:
In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the threshold, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.