Strong's #5166: Nchemyah (pronounced nekh-em-yaw')

from 5162 and 3050; consolation of Jah; Nechemjah, the name of three Israelites:--Nehemiah.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nechemyâh

Nehemiah = "Jehovah comforts"

1) the son of Hachaliah, cupbearer to king Artaxerxes, who became governor of Judah after the return from exile

2) one of the 12 heads of the people who returned from exile with Zerubbabel

3) son of Azbuk and ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, who helped to repair the wall of Jerusalem

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: from H5162 and H3050

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Ezra 2:2: "with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan,"
Nehemiah 1:1: "The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth"
Nehemiah 3:16: "After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part"
Nehemiah 7:7: "with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai,"
Nehemiah 8:9: " And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught"
Nehemiah 10:1: "Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,"
Nehemiah 12:26: "the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe."
Nehemiah 12:47: "in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters,"