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Strong's #5161: Nechelamiy (pronounced nekh-el-aw-mee')

apparently a patronymic from an unused name (apparently passive participle of 2492); dreamed; a Nechelamite, or descendant of Nechlam:--Nehelamite.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nechĕlâmı̂y

Nehelamite = "he of the dream"

1) the designation of a false prophet Shemaiah taken into captivity to Babylon; name is formed from his native place or his progenitor

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: apparently a patronymic from an unused name (apparently passive participle of H2492)



Usage:

This word is used 3 times:

Jeremiah 29:24: "Thus shalt thou also speak to Shemaiah the Nehelamite, saying,"
Jeremiah 29:31: "the LORD concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied"
Jeremiah 29:32: "Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have"









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