נחמיה

Hebrew

Root
נ־ח־ם (n-kh-m)

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

נְחֶמְיָה • (nekhemyá)

1. Nehemiah (the sixteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh)
2. (biblical) Nehemiah (a governor of Judea who was, according to the Tanakh, sent by the king of Persia to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem)
3. a male given name, equivalent to English Nehemiah

References

• H5166 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Further reading

• נחמיה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he