Nehemiah

English

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Etymology

From Hebrew נְחֶמְיָה (“consolation of Yahweh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌniː(h)əˈmaɪə/
• Rhymes: -aɪə

Proper noun

Nehemiah

2. (biblical) A governor of Judea who was, according to the Tanakh, sent by the king of Persia to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
   • 2014 June 1, James M. Hamilton, Jr., Exalting Jesus in Ezra-Nehemiah (Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary)‎, B&H Publishing Group, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     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... […]

4. The sixteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh.

   Synonym: (abbreviation) Neh.

5. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.

Derived terms

• Ezra-Nehemiah

 

Related terms

• Nahum

Translations

book of the Bible

Afrikaans: Nehemia (af) Armenian: Նեեմիա (hy) (Neemia) Asturian: Nehemíes (ast) Basque: Nehemias (eu) Breton: Nehemia (br) m Catalan: Nehemies Cebuano: Nehemias Chinese: Cantonese: 尼希米記／尼希米记 (nei4 hei1 mai5 gei3) Eastern Min: 尼希米書／尼希米书 (Nà̤-hĭ-mī-cṳ̆) Hakka: 尼希米記／尼希米记 (Nì-hî-mí-ki) Mandarin: 尼希米記／尼希米记 (zh) (Níxīmǐjì) Corsican: Neemia (co) Czech: Nehemiáš m Danish: Nehemias (da) Dutch: Nehemia (nl) Estonian: Nehemja raamat (et) Faroese: Nehemias (fo) m Finnish: Nehemia (fi) French: Néhémie (fr) Georgian: ნეემია sg (neemia) German: Nehemia (de) Greek: Νεεμίας (el) m (Neemías) Ancient: Νεἑμίας m (Nehemías) Greenlandic: Nehemia (kl) Hawaiian: Nehemia Hebrew: נְחֶמְיָה (he) Hungarian: Nehémiás (hu) Icelandic: Nehemía m Ido: Nehemias (io) m Indonesian: Nehemia Irish: Leabhar Nihimiá m, Nihimiá (ga) m Italian: Neemia (it) m Japanese: ネヘミヤ記 (nehemiya ki) Latin: Nehemiae (la) m Latvian: Nehemija (lv) m Lavukaleve: Nehemiah Limburgish: Nehemia Lithuanian: Nehemijo knyga (lt) f Maltese: Il-Ktieb ta’ Neħemija (mt) Manx: Nehemiah (gv) Maori: Nehemia (mi) Mirandese: Nemias Neapolitan: Neemia Norwegian: Nehemja (no) Polish: Księga Nehemiasza f Portuguese: Neemias (pt) m, Nehemias (pt) m Romanian: Neemia (ro) m Russian: Кни́га Нееми́и f (Kníga Nejemíi) Scots: Nehemiah Scottish Gaelic: Nehemiah (gd) m Slovak: Nehemiáš m Slovene: Nehemija (sl) Spanish: Nehemías (es) Swahili: Nehemia (sw) class 9 Swedish: Nehemja (sv) Tagalog: Nehemias (tl) m Waray-Waray: Nehemías Welsh: Nehemeia (cy) m West Frisian: Nehemia Yiddish: נחמיה (Nekhemye) Zealandic: Nehemia

male given name

Afrikaans: Nehemia (af) Armenian: Նեեմիա (hy) (Neemia) Asturian: Nehemíes (ast) Basque: Nehemias (eu) Breton: Nehemia (br) m Cebuano: Nehemias Chinese: Eastern Min: 尼希米 (Nà̤-hĭ-mī) Corsican: Neemia (co) Czech: Nehemiáš m Danish: Nehemias (da) m Dutch: Nehemia (nl) m Estonian: Nehemja Faroese: Nehemias (fo) Finnish: Nehemia (fi) m French: Néhémie (fr) m Georgian: ნეემია sg (neemia) German: Nehemia (de) m Greek: Νεεμίας (el) m (Neemías) Ancient: Νεἑμίας m (Nehemías) Greenlandic: Nehemia (kl) Hawaiian: Nehemia Hungarian: Nehémiás (hu) Icelandic: Nehemía m Ido: Nehemias (io) m Indonesian: Nehemia Irish: Nihimiá (ga) m Italian: Neemia (it) m Japanese: ネヘミヤ (Nehemiya) Latin: Nehemiae (la) m Latvian: Nehemija (lv) m Lavukaleve: Nehemiah Limburgish: Nehemia Lithuanian: Nehemija m Maltese: Neħemija m Manx: Nehemiah (gv) Maori: Nehemia (mi) Mirandese: Nemias Neapolitan: Neemia Norwegian: Nehemja (no) m Polish: Nehemiasz (pl) m Portuguese: Neemias (pt) m, Nehemias (pt) m Romanian: Neemia (ro) m Russian: Нееми́я (ru) m (Nejemíja) Scots: Nehemiah Scottish Gaelic: Nehemiah (gd) m Slovak: Nehemiáš m Slovene: Nehemija (sl) m Spanish: Nehemías (es) Swahili: Nehemia (sw) class 9 Swedish: Nehemja (sv) m Tagalog: Nehemias (tl) m Waray-Waray: Nehemías Welsh: Nehemeia (cy) m West Frisian: Nehemia Zealandic: Nehemia

Scottish Gaelic

Proper noun

Nehemiah m

1. (biblical) Nehemiah
2. (biblical) Nehemiah, the sixteenth book of the Old Testament

Coordinate terms

• (Scottish Gaelic books of the Old Testament) Genesis, Ecsodus, Lebhiticus, Àireamh, Deuteronomi, Iosua, Britheamhan, Rut, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Rìghrean, 2 Rìghrean, 1 Eachdraidh, 2 Eachdraidh, Esra, Nehemiah, Ester, Iob, Sailm, Gnàth-fhacail, Eclesiastes, Dàn Sholaimh, Isaiah, Ieremiah, Tuireadh, Eseciel, Daniel, Hosèa, Ioel, Amos, Obadiah, Ionah, Micah, Nahum, Habacuc, Sephaniah, Hagai, Sechariah, Malachi ^{(Category: gd:Books of the Bible)}