Person

Nehemiah

Nechemyah

נְחֶמְיָה

Yahweh comforts.

Nehemiah rebuilds Jerusalem’s wall and reforms the people under the Persian king’s commission.

Strong’s

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נְחֶמְיָה H5166

Nᵉchemyâh · nekh-em-yaw'

Nechemjah, the name of three Israelites

from H5162 (נָחַם) and H3050 (יָהּ); consolation of Jah;

KJV glosses: Nehemiah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.

נְחֶמְיָה H5166

Biblical Hebrew

נְחֶמְיָה proper name, masculine (Yah comforts, ᵐ5 Νεεμιας(‐ου), etc.; — proper name נחמיה(וׅ on Israel scarab in BM, ClGannJas 1883, Fév.-Mars. 156 No. 42); — 1. the son of Hachaliah, governor of Judah under Artaxerxes Longimanus Neh 1:1; Neh 8:9; Neh 10:2; Neh 12:26; Neh 12:47.

2. ruler of half the district of Bethzur Neh 3:16.

3. one of twelve heads of people who returned with Zerubbabel Ezra 2:2 = Neh 7:7.