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title: נְחֶמְיָה — Nehemiah · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נְחֶמְיָה (5166), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: Nehemiah. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נְחֶמְיָה

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«נְחֶמְיָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Nehemiah** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 5166 · **BDB:** נְחֶמְיָה

### Glosses

Nehemiah (5); of.Nehemiah (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נְחֶמְיָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5166/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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;

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[Ezra 2:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.2/)

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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:

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