Shihshai

The scribe or secretary of Rehuni, Ezr 4»- »•' "• =» (B '^a/iaaa, ra/io^, i;a^£als, ^afifjd ; A has ^a/xo-ol and Luc. -afuiias through- out). He is called in I Es 2>' Sameluus. SHIN (L") and SIN (b»).— The twenty-first letter of Wtv Hebrew aljihuliet, and as such employed in the 119th Psalm to designate the 21st part, each verso of which in Heb. begins with this letter in one or other of its two forms. These are trans- literated in this Dictionary by *Aand»respeotiveIy.

On the question when the two forms of the letter began to be distinguished by the so-called dia- critical point, and for a strong plea in favour of the order shin-sin, instead of the customary sin- shin, in Hob. Grammars and Dictionaries, see Nestle in Transactions of the IXth and Xlth International Congress of Orientalists (Semitic section).