Given by Mithra, or dedicated to Mithra, i.e., the sun, the Hebrew form of the Greek name Mithridates.
1) The "treasurer" of King Cyrus (Ezra 1:8).
2) Ezra 4:7, a Persian officer in Samaria.
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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
(given by Mithra). • The treasurer of Cyrus king of Persia, to whom the king gave the vessels of th...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary