The hero of 2 Esdras, and cupbearer at the Persian court of Susa, who obtained the commission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem in the 20th year of the reign of Artaxerxes I (445 B.C.). Sanaballat, his chief opponent, was unsuccessful in trying to prevent the work which had been so divided among the Jews that each family agreed to build a section of the wall as a monument to its zeal. Nehemias cared for the famine-stricken and stopped usury. He repeopled Jerusalem with volunteers and a draft of one-tenth of the rural population. To accomplish this he made use of an older list of Jews who had returned to Jerusalem under Zorobabel (538 B.C.). Nehemias celebrated the completion of his work by a feast, on the occasion of which he confirmed the nation in its observance of the Law of Moses. After 12 years of labor, Nehemias returned to Susa, but was compelled to journey again to Judea, in order to correct abuses that had crept in there during his absence. Among these were marriages with Samaritans and heathens, and failure to support the Levites by tithes. <\/p>\n
(v.r. ), the Grsecized form (retained in the A.V. of the Apocrypha) of the name NEHEMIAH SEE NEHEMIAH (q.v.), namely,<\/p>\n
(a) The contemporary of Zerubbabel and Jeshua (Esdr. 5:8); <\/p>\n
(b) The governor, son of Hachaliah (1Es 5:40). <\/p>\n
NEHEMIAS.1. 1Es 5:8 = Nehemiah, Ezr 2:2, Neh 7:7. 2. 1Es 5:40, Nehemiah the contemporary of Ezra.<\/p>\n
ne-he-mas: Greek form of the Hebrew Nehemiah.<\/p>\n
(1) , Neemas, one of the leaders of the return under Zerubbabel (1 Esdras 5:8) = Nehemiah of Ezr 2:2; Neh 7:7.<\/p>\n
(2) , Neemas, Codex Vaticanus , Naimas, the prophet Nehemiah (1 Esdras 5:40 where the King James Version margin reads Nehemias who also is Atharias). Neither Nehemias nor Attharias is found in the parallel Ezr 2:63; Neh 7:65, but , ha-tirshatha’ = Tirshatha, the governor, by whom Zerubbabel must be intended. Thus, the Hebrew word for governor has been converted into a proper name and by some blunder the name Nehemiah inserted, perhaps because he also was known by the title of governor.<\/p>\n
Nehemias The hero of 2 Esdras, and cupbearer at the Persian court of Susa, who obtained the commission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem in the 20th year of the reign of Artaxerxes I (445 B.C.). Sanaballat, his chief opponent, was unsuccessful in trying to prevent the work which had been so divided among the … Continue reading “Nehemias”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}