The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Samellius

sa-mel'-i-us (Codex Vaticanus Samellios; Codex Alexandrinus Sebellios, al Semellios; the King James Version Semellius): "Samellius the scribe," one of those who wrote a letter of protest to Artaxerxes against the building of Jerusalem by the returned exiles (1 Esdras 2:16,17,25,30) = "Shimshai" in Ezr 4:8.

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, James Orr (1915). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.