comforter; penitent
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
NEHUM.One of the twelve heads of the Jewish community (Neh_7:7); prob. a scribal error for Rehum of Ezr_2:2 called in 1Es_5:8 Roimus.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Neh_7:7. REHUM in Ezr_2:2.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.
Ne'hum. (consolation). One of those, who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. Neh_7:7.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
nē?hum (נחוּם, neḥūm): One of the twelve heads of the people who returned with Zerubbabel (Neh_7:7). In the parallel passage (Ezr_2:2), the name appears as REHUM (which see), and in 1 Esdras 5:8 as ?Roimus.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Nehum
(Heb. Nechum', נְחוּם, if genuine, i.q. Nahum, i.e., consoled, but prob. by erroneous transcription for , רְחוּ, i.e., Rechum; Sept. Ι᾿ναούμ, but most MSS. have Ναούμ; Vulg. Nahum), one of the Israelites who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel (Neh_7:7); called REHUM SEE REHUM (q.v.) in the parallel list (Ezr_2:2).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.