dreamer; vale; brook
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
NEHELAMITE.An epithet applied to Shemaiah, a false prophet who opposed Jeremiah (Jer_29:24; Jer_29:31-32). According to analogy the word should mean an inhabitant of Nehelam. but there is no place of that name mentioned in the Bible.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
A title from the father or the country, Shemaiah (Jer_29:24; Jer_29:31-32). Halam means a "dream"; Jeremiah glances at the "dreamer" scornfully (Jer_29:8).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Nehelamite
(Heb. Nechelami', נֶחֵָלמַי, with the art.; Sept. Αἰλαμίτης v.r. Ε᾿λαμίτης, Νεελαμίτης, Αἰλαμί, an appellation of a man named Shemaiah, a false prophet, who went with the captives to Babylon (Jer_29:24; Jer_29:31-32). The name is no doubt formed from that either of Shemaiah's native place or the progenitor of his family; which of the two is uncertain. SEE SHIEMAIAH. No place called Nehelam is mentioned in the Bible, or known to have existed in Palestine, nor does it occur in any of the genealogical lists of families. It resembles the name which the Sept. has attached to Ahijah the prophet, namely, the Enlamite- οΕ῾νλαμεί; but by what authority they substitute that name for "the Shilonite" of the Hebrew text is doubtful. The word "Nehelamite" also probably contains a play on the " dreams" (chakam) and " dreamers," whom Jeremiah is never wearied of denouncing (see chapters 23, 27, 29). Furst, however, thinks (Heb. Lex. s.v.) that there is an allusion to the failure of an inheritance (נחל), as threatened. The Targum gives the name as Chelam, חלם. A place of this name, SEE HELAM, lay somewhere between the Jordan and the Euphrates.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.