Strong's #8660: Tirshatha' (pronounced teer-shaw-thaw')

of foreign derivation; the title of a Persian deputy or governor:--Tirshatha.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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tirshâthâ'

1) Tirshatha - governor

1a) a title used by the Persian governor in Judea

1a1) Nehemiah used this title

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: of foreign derivation

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Ezra 2:63: " And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things,"
Nehemiah 7:65: " And the Tirshatha said unto them, that they should not eat of the most holy things,"
Nehemiah 7:70: "of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand"
Nehemiah 8:9: "And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught"
Nehemiah 10:1: "Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,"