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Definition 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.

Definition of Nehemiah

1. Proper noun. (biblical) The sixteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh. ¹

2. Proper noun. (biblical character) A governor of Judea sent by the Persian king to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. ¹

3. Proper noun. (Hebrew male given name) of biblical origin. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Nehemiah

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

1. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"As regards the authorship of tbe book, it a admitted by all critics that it is, as to its man parts, the genuine work of Nehemiah. lint it • no less certain ..."

2. Old Testament History by Henry Preserved Smith (1903)
"CHAPTER XVII Nehemiah AND AFTER THE interest with which thoughtful Jews ... They reported to Nehemiah concerning the remnant who were left of the captivity. ..."

3. A Critical Introduction to the Old Testament by George Buchanan Gray (1913)
"CHAPTER XI THE LATER HISTORICAL BOOKS: (2) EZRA AND Nehemiah EZRA and Nehemiah are in reality not two distinct books, but sections of one and the same book. ..."

4. Christian Workers' Commentary on the Old and New Testaments: Arranged in by James Martin Gray (1915)
"1-6), but Nehemiah made his appeal to God and continued the work until the ... These enemies are not personal to Nehemiah, but the enemies of God and of all ..."

5. The Old and New Testament Connected in the History of the Jews and by Humphrey Prideaux (1845)
"1st, As to the age of Nehemiah, that the text from whence this objection is ... For, notwithstanding what is said therein, Nehemiah might have been dead, ..."

6. The History of the Jewish Church by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1882)
"At first Nehemiah, as might be expected from his more commanding position, ... It is Nehemiah, Traditions and not Zerubbabel, who in the next2 age was ..."

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