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# נְחֶמְיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5166

**Nehemiah** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Nehemiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5166/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְחֶמְיָה: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5166/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Yah comforts, 𝔊 Νεεμιας (-ου). etc.;—n.pr. נחמיה(ו) on Isr. scarab in BM, Cl GannJAs 1883, Fév.-Mars. 156 No. 42);— the son of Hachaliah, governor of Judah under Artaxerxes Longimanus Ne 1:1; 8:9; 10:2; 12:26, 47. ruler of half the district of Bethzur Ne 3:16. one of twelve heads of people who returned with Zerubbabel Ezr 2:2 = Ne 7:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Nehemiah (5); of Nehemiah (3).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.2/#tree)

וְעַ֖ל הַחֲתוּמִ֑ים נְחֶמְיָ֧ה הַתִּרְשָׁ֛תָא בֶּן־חֲכַלְיָ֖ה וְצִדְקִיָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and.\[were\] on the.sealed \[documents\] Nehemiah the governor the.son of.Hacaliah and Zedekiah

*JPS 1917:* Now those that set their seal were: Nehemiah the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zedekiah;

[Ezra 2:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.2/#tree)

אֲשֶׁר־בָּ֣אוּ עִם־זְרֻבָּבֶ֗ל יֵשׁ֡וּעַ נְ֠חֶמְיָה שְׂרָיָ֨ה רְֽעֵלָיָ֜ה מָרְדֳּכַ֥י בִּלְשָׁ֛ן מִסְפָּ֥ר בִּגְוַ֖י רְח֣וּם בַּעֲנָ֑ה מִסְפַּ֕ר אַנְשֵׁ֖י עַ֥ם יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* who they.came with Zerubbabel Jeshua Nehemiah Seraiah Reelaiah Mordecai Bilshan Mispar Bigvai Rehum Baanah the.number of.the.men of.the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5166.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5166/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).