Definition of Book of Nehemiah

1. Noun. An Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in rebuilding Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity.

Exact synonyms: Nehemiah
Generic synonyms: Book
Group relationships: Old Testament, Hagiographa, Ketubim, Writings

Lexicographical Neighbors of Book Of Nehemiah

Book of Hosea
Book of Isaiah
Book of Jeremiah
Book of Job
Book of Joel
Book of Jonah
Book of Joshua
Book of Judges
Book of Judith
Book of Lamentations
Book of Leviticus
Book of Malachi
Book of Micah
Book of Mormon
Book of Nahum
Book of Nehemiah (current term)
Book of Numbers
Book of Obadiah
Book of Proverbs
Book of Psalms
Book of Revelation
Book of Ruth
Book of Susanna
Book of Tobit
Book of Zachariah
Book of Zephaniah
Book of the Dead
Book of the Prophet Daniel
Book syndrome
Booker T. Washington

Literary usage of Book of Nehemiah

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Hebrew Nation and Its Literature: With an Appendix on the by Samuel Sharpe (1890)
"The Book of Nehemiah is one of the most interesting of the historical ... In the Book of Nehemiah we for the first time meet with the word " Jew," with the ..."

2. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1888)
"... in the present book of Nehemiah ; and if any dej>ei.d- ence can l>e placed upon the account there ..."

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