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Strong's #7348 - רְחוּם
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- Rehum = "compassion"
- an man who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
- also ´Nehum´
- a commander who wrote a letter to the king Artaxerxes in which he opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem
- a Levite of the family of Bani who assisted in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem
- one of the chiefs of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah
- a priest who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
- an man who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
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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).
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.
