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shaÌ„-ash´gaz (ש×עש××’Ö¼×–, sha‛ashgaÌ„z; Septuagint reads ΓαιÌ, GaıÌ, the same name it gives to the official referred to in , ; the name may go back to the Old Bactrian word Sasakshant, “one anxious to learn†(Scheft); most commentators suggest no explanation): A chamberlain of Ahasuerus, king of Persia; as keeper of “the second house of women,†he had Esther under his charge ().