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Strong's #4918 - מְשֻׁלָּם
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Meshullam = “friend”
1) grandfather of Shaphan, the scribe
2) son of Zerubbabel
3) a Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal
4) a Benjamite, father of Sallu
5) a Benjamite who lived at Jerusalem after the captivity
6) a Benjamite
6a) perhaps the same as 3 or 4
7) a Gadite in the reign of king Jotham of Judah
8) son of Berechiah who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem
9) son of Besodeiah who assisted Jehoiada the son of Paseah in restoring the old gate of Jerusalem
10) a chief of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
11) father of Hilkiah and high priest probably in the reign of king Amon of Judah
11a) perhaps the same as ‘Shallum’
12) a priest, son of Meshillemith or Meshillemoth, son of Immer, and ancestor of Maasiai or Amashai
13) a priest or family of priests who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
14) a priest, head of the family of Ginnethon and representative of the house of Ezra in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua
15) a priest, one of the princes of Judah at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem
16) a Kohathite or family of Kohathite Levites in the reign of Josiah
17) a Levite, one of the heads sent to Iddo to gather the Levites to join the caravan about to return to Jerusalem; a chief man who assisted Ezra in abolishing the marriages which some of the people had made with foreign wives
18) ancestor of a family of porters or Levites in days of Nehemiah
19) a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife and put her away
20) one of the men who stood at the left hand of Ezra when he read the law to the people
20a) maybe the same as 17
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1 grandfather of Shaphan 2 Kings 22:3.
2 son of Zerubbabel 1 Chronicles 3:19.
3 in Benjamin:
a. 1 Chronicles 8:17, perhaps =
b. 1 Chronicles 9:7.
c. 1 Chronicles 9:8.
d. Nehemiah 11:7.
4 in Gad 1 Chronicles 5:13.
5 wall-builders:
a. Nehemiah 3:4,30.
b. Nehemiah 3:6.
6 a chief Nehemiah 10:21.
7 priests (distinctions in part obscure):
a. 1 Chronicles 9:11; Nehemiah 11:11; Nehemiah 12:13 (perhaps = שַׁלּוּם 11).
b. 1 Chronicles 9:12.
c. Nehemiah 10:8.
d. Nehemiah 12:6.
e. Nehemiah 12:33.
8 Levites:
a. 2 Chronicles 34:12.
b. Ezra 8:16; Ezra 10:15; Nehemiah 8:14.
c. Nehemiah 12:25 ( = שַׁלּוּם 12 a).
9 Ezra 10:29. above
מְשֻׁלָּם (“friend” sc. of God; compare Isaiah 42:19), [Meshullam], pr.n. of several men, Ezra 8:16, 10:15, 29 Ezra 10:29; Nehemiah 3:4,, 30, etc.