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HebrewH5161Noun

נֶחֱלָמִי

ne.che.la.mi

3Occurrences
H5161Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Nechelamite, or descendant of Nechlam

apparently a patronymic from an unused name (apparently passive participle of H2492 (חָלַם)); dreamed;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Someone descended from Nehel(?), first mentioned at § Nehelamite = "he of the dream" the designation of a false prophet Shemaiah taken into captivity to Babylon; name is formed from his native place or his progenitor

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--PG

Full Description

N:N--PG

Occurrences

נֶחֱלָמִי appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
3

Key Passages

Jeremiah 29:24BSB

You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that

Jeremiah 29:31BSB

“Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,

Jeremiah 29:32BSB

this is what the LORD says: ‘I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.’”

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.