Nehemiah

English

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Etymology

From Hebrew נְחֶמְיָה (“consolation of Yahweh”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌniː(h)əˈmaɪə/

• Audio (General American, without /h/):

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• Audio (General American, with /h/):

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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)‎^[1], 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.
6. A surname.
   • 1979, Ebony Magazine, Ebony - Jun 1979, page 114:

     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."

Derived terms

• Ezra-Nehemiah

Related terms

• Nahum

Translations

book of the Bible

• Afrikaans: Nehemia (af)
• Arabic: نَحَمْيَا (naḥamyā)
• 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)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Nehemia

• Georgian: ნეემია sg (neemia)
• German: Nehemia (de)
• Greek: Νεεμίας (el) m (Neemías)

  Ancient Greek: 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: Nehemias m
• Latvian: Nehemija (lv) m
• Lavukaleve: Nehemiah
• Limburgish: Nehemia
• Lithuanian: Nehemijo knyga (lt) f
• Malay: Nehemia
• Maltese: Il-Ktieb ta’ Neħemija (mt)
• Manx: Nehemiah (gv)
• Māori: 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
• Tumbuka: Nehemiya
• Uzbek: Naximiyo
• Waray-Waray: Nehemías
• Welsh: Nehemeia (cy) m
• 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
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Nehemia

• Georgian: ნეემია sg (neemia)
• German: Nehemia (de) m
• Greek: Νεεμίας (el) m (Neemías)

  Ancient Greek: 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
• Malay: Nehemia
• Maltese: Neħemija m
• Manx: Nehemiah (gv)
• Māori: 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
• Zealandic: Nehemia

Scottish Gaelic

Proper noun

Nehemiah m

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

Coordinate terms

books of the Protestant Old Testamentedit

• 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