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Chancellor

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(usher of a law-court). A keeper of the king’s seal (Ezra 4:8⁸Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort: (Ezra 4:8)).

Concise Bible Dictionary:

The word in the original signifies “master of counsel or decrees.” It was the title of a Persian officer (Ezra 4:8-9, 17⁸Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king in this sort: ⁹Then wrote Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions; the Dinaites, the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, and the Elamites, (Ezra 4:8‑9)
¹⁷Then sent the king an answer unto Rehum the chancellor, and to Shimshai the scribe, and to the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and unto the rest beyond the river, Peace, and at such a time. (Ezra 4:17)).