CHOSAMÆUS (1Es_9:32).It is not improbable that the Gr. reading is due to a copyists error, especially seeing that the three proper names that follow Simeon in the text of Ezr_10:31 are omitted in 1 Esdras.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
kos-a-mē?us (A, Σίμων Χοσαμαῖος, Simōn Chosamaı́os; B, Χοσάμαος, Chosámaos): Occurs in 1 Esdras 9:32 as the name of one of the sons of Annas. But in the parallel passage (Ezr_10:31) the name is simply Shimeon followed by ?Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah,? which are omitted in 1 Esdras. The Septuagint of Ezr_10:31 has Σεμεών, Semeō̇n, followed by the three omitted names. The difference may have arisen from a mistake of a copyist, or from the use of an imperfect MS.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Chosamaeus
(Χοσαμαῖος), a name given in the Apocrypha (1Es_9:32) apparently as a surname or epithet of one Simon, in the list of "Temple servants" returned from the Captivity; but nothing corresponding to either name appears in the Hebrew text (Ezr_2:47).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.