Word

גֶּשֶׁם

Geshem · H1654 · Hebrew · proper noun · 4 occurrences

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Person

Geshemfirst named in Nehemiah 2:194 verses

Meanings

Gashmu, Geshem

Gashmu, also known as Geshem, an Arab opponent of Nehemiah after the exile

Examples
Nehemiah 6:6 In it was written: “It is reported among the nations, and Gashmu says, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; for that reason you are rebuilding the wall. And you are to be their king, according to these reports.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 1 groups

עֲרָבִיArab 2

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 3 groups

אָמַרto say 1
שָׁלַחto send, to send away 1
שָׁמַעto hear, to listen, to obey 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

לto/for 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: Geshem names an Arab opponent of Nehemiah who, with Sanballat and Tobiah, mocked and plotted against the rebuilding of Jerusalem's wall.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1654. Geshem or Gashmu I. גֶּ֫שֶׁם proper name, masculine an opponent of Nehemiah Neh…

H1654. Geshem
or Gashmu I. גֶּ֫שֶׁם proper name, masculine an opponent of Nehemiah Neh 2:19; Neh 6:1 (in both called הָעַרְבִּי); Neh 6:2; also גַּשְׁמוּ Neh 6:6; וּ as in Nabataean proper name compare Nö in EutNab 73.
גַּשְׁמוּ proper name, see I. גֶּשֶׁם. above

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0