An obscure term in Ezra 4:9's list of Persian officials who opposed Jerusalem's reconstruction. The text is uncertain—it may be an ethnic designation, a title, or even the Aramaic phrase 'that is' serving as a clarifying particle. The Greek renders it as 'who are,' supporting the explanatory reading. This illustrates the textual and historical difficulties in Ezra's administrative correspondence, which preserves Persian-period terminology often opaque to later readers.