H5161

נֶחֱלָמִי

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Nehelam

Someone descended from Nehel(?), first mentioned at Jer.29.24 § 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

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

נֶחֱלָמִי adjective, of a people (noun not found); — Jer 29:24 also vJer 29:31 vJer 29:32 (Where van d. H. נֶחְלָמִי).


נַחֲלָת see נַחֲלֶה.


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