First name Nehemiah in the world's Bibles
In the bible, Nehemiah is the name of the returned to Judah after the Babylonian captivity (EZR 2:2, NEH 7:7), son of Hacaliah (Neh 1:1), as well as name of made repairs to the wall of Jerusalem (NEH 3:16). Meaning of the name: consolation; repentance of the Lord. Related names are: Israel, Zerubbabel, Jeshua . The translations of Nehemiah in 75 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
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below, from Nehemías in Spanish to ネヘミヤ in Japanese!
Wear it!Which came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah. The number of the men of the people of Israel: (EZR 2:2)
The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, (NEH 1:1)
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty. (NEH 3:16)
Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this; (NEH 7:7)
And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law. (NEH 8:9)
Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah, (NEH 10:1)
These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe. (NEH 12:26)
And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron. (NEH 12:47)