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Nehemiah
[ nee-uh-mahy-uh ]
noun
- a Hebrew leader of the 5th century b.c.
- a book of the Bible bearing his name. : Neh.
- a male given name.
Nehemiah
/ ˌniːɪˈmaɪə /
noun
- a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, who in 444 bc became a leader in the rebuilding of Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity
- the book recounting the acts of Nehemiah
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Nehemiah1
Ultimately from Hebrew Nĕḥemyāh “Yahweh comforts”
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Example Sentences
The practice of making confession, then, was fully illustrated in the conduct both of Ezra and Nehemiah, and of Israel with them.
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As a nation, after the return from Babylon, under Nehemiah, the whole people and their rulers also entered into covenant with God.
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“Strange Adventures of Mr. Nehemiah Solny,” projected, xxiii.
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Nehemiah Grew was interested in the process of secondary thickening, but he only arrived at a dim notion of how it took place.
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Although it is as an anatomist that Nehemiah Grew is best known, his grasp of external morphology is perhaps even more remarkable.
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