Shim'sha-i or Shimsha'i. (sunny). The scribe, or secretary, of Kehum, who was a kind of satrap of the conquered province of Judea, and of the colony of Samaria, supported by the Persian court. Ezra 4:8; Ezra 4:13; Ezra 4:17; Ezra 4:23. He was apparently an Aramaean, for the letter which he wrote to Artaxerxes was in Syriac. Ezra 4:7. (B.C. 529).