NEHEMIAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nehemiah mean? 

• NEHEMIAH (noun)
  The noun NEHEMIAH has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: NEHEMIAH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEHEMIAH (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Book of Nehemiah; Nehemiah

Instance hypernyms:

book (a major division of a long written composition)

Holonyms ("Nehemiah" is a part of...):

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Hagiographa; Ketubim; Writings (the third of three divisions of the Hebrew Scriptures)