person
Shaashgaz
שַׁעַשְׁגַּז
Shaashgaz was the eunuch appointed by King Ahasuerus to be in charge of the concubines in the royal harem.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Esther 2:14
- last named
- Esther 2:14
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Shaashgaz?
Shaashgaz, mentioned in Est.2.14, was a eunuch in the court of King Ahasuerus (Xerxes I) of Persia. He was appointed by the king to be in charge of the concubines in the royal harem. After each young woman had completed her twelve months of beauty treatments and had spent the night with the king, she would be placed under the care of Shaashgaz. This procedure was part of the king's search for a new queen after Queen Vashti's dismissal. Shaashgaz's role was to oversee the concubines and ensure their well-being within the harem.
Relations
Direct connections
The kinship import reads the registry's own columns — parent, child, sibling, spouse — for every entity in it, and records none here. An extracted relation would be listed beside them, and none names this person either.
Not stated
No family is recorded for this person.
Places
Where this happens
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No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Shaashgaz is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Esther (1).
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Where to read it
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Onward
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