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Strong's #7348 - רְחוּם

Transliteration
Rᵉchûwm
Phonetics
rekh-oom'
Origin
a form of (H7349)
Parts of Speech
Proper Name Masculine
TWOT
None
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Definition   
Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Rehum = “compassion”

1) an man who returned from exile with Zerubbabel

1a) also ‘Nehum’

2) a commander who wrote a letter to the king Artaxerxes in which he opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem

3) a Levite of the family of Bani who assisted in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem

4) one of the chiefs of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah

5) a priest who returned from exile with Zerubbabel

Frequency Lists
Verse Results
KJV (8)
Ezra 5
Nehemiah 3
HCS (0)
HCS (8)
Ezra 5
Nehemiah 3
BSB (8)
Ezra 5
Nehemiah 3
ESV (7)
Ezra 4
Nehemiah 3
WEB (8)
Ezra 5
Nehemiah 3
Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition
 רְחוּם, רְחֻם proper name, masculine ( compassion, or softness, Gentleness ?); — post-exilic name:

1 with Zerubbabel:

a.רְחוּם Ezra 2:2, A Ιρεουμ’, ᵐ5 L Ναουμ ( = נְחוּם "" Nehemiah 7:7).

b. priest, רְחֻם Nehemiah 12:3 Ρεουμ ( = חָרִם Nehemiah 12:15, compare Nehemiah 7:42 = Ezra 2:39; Ezra 10:21, see חָרִם 3 a).

2רְחוּם, with Nehemiah:

a. Levite Nehemiah 3:17, Βασουθ, א A ᵐ5 L Ραουμ.

b. Nehemiah 10:26, Ρα[ε]ουμ.

רְחוּם proper name, masculine Persian official Ezra 4:8 (usually explained from √ רחם, see Biblical Hebrew; Scheft92 thinks possibly originally רוחם, Old Iranian proper name rukma, = splendour).


Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

רְחוּם (“beloved” [“merciful”]), [Rehum], pr.n. m.

(1) of a Persian governor in Samaria, Ezra 4:8.

(2)  Nehemiah 3:17.

(3)  Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 10:26 for which there is, Nehemiah 7:7 (prob. by error of a copyist) נְחוּם.

(4)  Nehemiah 12:3 otherwise חָרִם verse 15 Nehemiah 12:15, 7:42.


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List of Word Forms
רְח֛וּם רְח֣וּם רְח֤וּם רְח֥וּם רְחֻ֖ם רחום רחם rə·ḥum rə·ḥūm reChum rəḥum rəḥūm
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