Nehemiah

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Nehemiah

  • /ˌniː(h)əˈmaɪə/

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From Hebrew נְחֶמְיָה (“consolation of Yahweh”).

proper noun

  1. A governor of Judea who was, according to the Tanakh, sent by the king of Persia to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. Nehemiah stood firm by rejecting the imaginative and wicked spin the enemies put on reality and persisted in what God had called him to do. Then he prayed that, rather than his hands dropping from the work, God would strengthen them in...[…]
  2. The sixteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh.

    Similar: Neh.

  3. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
  4. A surname. But Skeets is patient and polite. When it all gets too tiresome he gets away with Kim to "relate to Renaldo Nehemiah as a person not affiliated with track."

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name book of the Bible

EspañolNehemías
日本語ネヘミヤ記 nehemiya ki
中文尼希米記 /尼希米记 Níxīmǐjì
KiswahiliNehemia
PortuguêsNeemias, Nehemias
FrançaisNéhémie
DeutschNehemia
ItalianoNeemia
ΕλληνικάΝεεμίας Neemías
RomânăNeemia
РусскийКни́га Нееми́и Kníga Nejemíi
العربيةنَحَمْيَا naḥamyā
עבריתנְחֶמְיָה

name male given name

EspañolNehemías
日本語ネヘミヤ Nehemiya
KiswahiliNehemia
PortuguêsNeemias, Nehemias
FrançaisNéhémie
DeutschNehemia
ItalianoNeemia
ΕλληνικάΝεεμίας Neemías
RomânăNeemia
РусскийНееми́я Nejemíja

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@misc{nehemiah_2026,
  title = {Nehemiah},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nehemiah},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}