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Nehemiah

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1. Nehemiah - Noun

2. Nehemiah - Proper noun

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

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Animated videos previously discovered by Palestinian Media Watch recreated real-life murders of Jews in terror attacks, including the fatal stabbing of Rabbi Nehemiah Lavi in Jerusalem in 2015. Source: Internet

Bethel is mentioned in Ezra 2:28 and Nehemiah 7:32 as being resettled at the time of the return of the exiles from Babylon. Source: Internet

Critical editions generally have settled on the Vulgate naming conventions, where Ezra and Nehemiah were 1 and 2 Esdras, Esdras A is 3 Esdras, and the Latin Apocalypse of Ezra is 4 Esdras (Charlesworth's Old Testament Pseudepigrapha). Source: Internet

Certain traditions ascribe the book to Zerubbabel and Nehemiah; others, still, to Malachi, whom they designate as a Levite and a member of the "Great Synagogue." Source: Internet

Day 1991, pp. 135–44 In 1723 Bristol brass maker Nehemiah Champion patented the use of granulated copper, produced by pouring molten metal into cold water. Source: Internet

At his own request Nehemiah is sent to Jerusalem as governor of Yehud, the official Persian name for Judah. Source: Internet

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