NEHEMIAS.1. 1Es_5:8 = Nehemiah, Ezr_2:2, Neh_7:7. 2. 1Es_5:40, Nehemiah the contemporary of Ezra.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
nē-hḗ-mı̄?as: Greek form of the Hebrew Nehemiah.
(1) Νεεμίας, Neemı́as, one of the leaders of the return under Zerubbabel (1 Esdras 5:8) = ?Nehemiah? of Ezr_2:2; Neh_7:7.
(2) Νεεμίας, Neemı́as, Codex Vaticanus Ναιμίας, Naimı́as, the prophet Nehemiah (1 Esdras 5:40 where the King James Version margin reads ?Nehemias who also is Atharias?). Neither Nehemias nor Attharias is found in the parallel Ezr_2:63; Neh_7:65, but התּרשׁתא, ha-tirshāthā' = Tirshatha, ?the governor,? by whom Zerubbabel must be intended. Thus, the Hebrew word for ?governor? has been converted into a proper name and by some blunder the name Nehemiah inserted, perhaps because he also was known by the title of ?governor.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Nehemias
(Νεεμίαςv.r. Ναιμαίς), the Grsecized form (retained in the A.V. of the Apocrypha) of the name NEHEMIAH SEE NEHEMIAH (q.v.), namely,
(a) The contemporary of Zerubbabel and Jeshua (Esdr. 5:8);
(b) The governor, son of Hachaliah (1Es_5:40).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.