Lysimachus

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


LYSIMACHUS.—1. The translator of the Greek edition of Esther into Greek (Ad. Est 11:1). 2. The brother of the high priest Menelaus. He excited the hatred of the populace by his systematic plundering of the Temple treasures, and was finally killed in a riot (2Ma_4:28; 2Ma_4:39-42).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


Lysim'achus. "A son of Ptolemaeus of Jerusalem," the Greek translator of the book of Esther. Compare Est_9:20.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


lı̄-sim?a-kus (Λυσίμαχος, Lusı́machos):
(1) The son of Ptolemy, of Jerusalem, is named (Additions to Esther 11:1) as the interpreter (translator of the Rest of Esther into Greek). See ESTHER, THE REST OF.
(2) Brother of Menelaus, a Greek name said by Josephus (Ant., XII, v, 1) to have been assumed by Onias, the high priest in the hellenizing days of Antiochus Epiphanes, as the Jewish name Jesus was changed to Jason. When Menelaus was summoned to Antioch (2 Macc 4:29) on a charge of malversation, he left Lysimachus as his deputy in the priesthood at Jerusalem. Lysimachus robbed the temple and caused an insurrection in which he met his death beside the treasury (2 Macc 4:42). The name of Lysimachus does not appear in the narrative of these events given by Josephus

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Lysimachus
(Λυσίμαχος, a frequent Greek name), the name of two men mentioned in the Apocrypha.
1. "The son of Ptolemneus of Jerusalem," commonly supposed to be the translator into Greek of the Book of Esther (see the close of the Sept. version). The Apocryphal "rest of the Book of Esther," A.V., says, "In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemneus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemus his son, brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus, the son of Ptolemeulls, that was at Jerusalem, had interpreted it" (11:1). There is, however, no reason to suppose that the translator was also the author of the additions made to the Hebrew text. SEE ESTHER, APOCRYPHAL ADDITIONS TO.
2. A brother of the Menelaus whom Antiochus appointed high-priest (B.C. cir. 171). Menelaus left him temporarily "in his stead in the priesthood," and encouraged him to commit many sacrileges. Thus he roused the indignation of the common people, who rose against him and killed him (2Ma_4:29; 2Ma_4:39). The Vulgate erroneously makes him the successor instead of the deputy of Menelaus.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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