BILSHAN bĭl’ shăn (בִּלְשָׁ֛ן, meaning perhaps inquirer, or their lord). One of the eleven or twelve leaders of those Jews who returned from captivity under leadership of Jeshua and Zerubbabel as a result of the decree of Cyrus, king of Persia (Ezra 2:2; Neh 7:7). In 1 Esdras 5:8 he is called Belsarus, bĕl sä’ rŭs (Βεελσάρος; perhaps from Akkad. Belshar, Bel is king; KJV, ASV Beelsarus, bē ěl’ se rŭs).