sa-mel´i-us (Codex Vaticanus ΣαμεÌλλιος, SameÌllios; Codex Alexandrinus ΣεβεÌλλιος, SebeÌllios, al ΖεμεÌλλιος, SemeÌllios; 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 .