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title: נְחוּם — Nehum · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נְחוּם (5149), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Nehum. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נְחוּם

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«נְחוּם» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Nehum** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5149 · **BDB:** נְחוּם

### Glosses

Nehum (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Nehum [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5149/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5149/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (comfort) a returned exile Ne 7:7 𝔊 Ναουμ = רְחוּם Ezr 2:2.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נְחוּם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5149/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nehemiah 7:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.7/)

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הַבָּאִ֣ים עִם־זְרֻבָּבֶ֗ל יֵשׁ֡וּעַ נְחֶמְיָ֡ה עֲ֠זַרְיָה רַֽעַמְיָ֨ה נַחֲמָ֜נִי מָרְדֳּכַ֥י בִּלְשָׁ֛ן מִסְפֶּ֥רֶת בִּגְוַ֖י נְח֣וּם בַּעֲנָ֑ה מִסְפַּ֕ר אַנְשֵׁ֖י עַ֥ם יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

*Word for word:* \[who\] came with Zerubbabel Jeshua Nehemiah Azariah Raamiah Nahamani Mordecai Bilshan Mispereth Bigvai Nehum Baanah the.number of.the.men of.the.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel:

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