Dictionaries :: Shaashgaz

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Shaashgaz:

servant of the beautiful, a chief eunuch in the second house of the harem of king Ahasuerus (Est 2:14).

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Shaashgaz:

he that presses the fleece; that shears the sheep

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Shaashgaz:

sha-ash'-gaz (sha‘ashgaz; Septuagint reads Gai, the same name it gives to the official referred to in Es 2:8,15; the name may go back to the Old Bactrian word Sasakshant, "one anxious to learn" (Scheft); most commentators suggest no explanation): A chamberlain of Ahasuerus, king of Persia; as keeper of "the second house of women," he had Esther under his charge (2:14).

Nave's Topical Bible

Shaashgaz: A Chamberlain of Ahasuerus

Est 2:14