ar.tach.shash.ta names the king whose reign, letters, commands, and regnal years frame events in Ezra and Nehemiah.

The term is consistently a proper name for a king, used to date events by his reign and to identify the royal figure connected with letters, commands, and requests. The supplied verses do not show a distinct lexical use beyond this personal designation.

1. Name of the king in regnal and royal settings · dominant

   The form is tagged Noun · Proper throughout. In Ezra 7:7 and Nehemiah 2:1, the APB renders events as occurring in a specified year of the king; in Ezra 7:11, it renders a letter given by the king to Ezra, while Ezra 4:7 describes a letter written to him.

   Ezra 4:7Ezra 7:7Ezra 7:11Ezra 8:1Nehemiah 2:1Nehemiah 5:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB presents the name as “Artaxerxes,” often with “king” and a regnal-year phrase. Those surrounding titles and descriptions should not be treated as separate meanings of the term.