'Artaxerxes' definitions:
Definition of 'Artaxerxes'
From: WordNet
noun
King of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made peace with Sparta (?-359 BC) [syn: Artaxerxes II, Artaxerxes]
noun
King of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in Jerusalem (?-424 BC) [syn: Artaxerxes I, Artaxerxes]
Definition of 'Artaxerxes'
From: Easton
- Artaxerxes the Greek form of the name of several Persian kings.
- The king who obstructed the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 4:7). He was probably the Smerdis of profane history.
- 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.
Definition of 'Artaxerxes'
From: Hitchcock
- Artaxerxes, the silence of light; fervent to spoil