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Lexicon :: Strong's H1654 - gešem

Aa
גֶּשֶׁם
Transliteration
gešem
Pronunciation
gheh'-shem
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

גֶּשֶׁם Geshem, gheh'-shem; or (prolonged) גַּשְׁמוּ Gashmûw; the same as H1653; Geshem or Gashmu, an Arabian:—Geshem, Gashmu.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x

The KJV translates Strong's H1654 in the following manner: Geshem (3x), Gashmu (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 4x
The KJV translates Strong's H1654 in the following manner: Geshem (3x), Gashmu (1x).

  1. Geshem or Gashmu = "rain"

    1. an Arabian foe of Nehemiah

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גֶּשֶׁם Geshem, gheh'-shem; or (prolonged) גַּשְׁמוּ Gashmûw; the same as H1653; Geshem or Gashmu, an Arabian:—Geshem, Gashmu.
STRONGS H1654: Abbreviations
† I. גֶּ֫שֶׁם proper name, masculine an opponent of Nehemiah Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 6:1 (in both called הָעַרְבִּי); Nehemiah 6:2; also גַּשְׁמוּ Nehemiah 6:6; וּ as in Nabataean proper name compare Nö in EutNab 73.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Nehemiah

2:19; 6:1; 6:2; 6:6

H1654

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1654 matches the Hebrew גֶּשֶׁם (gešem),
which occurs 4 times in 4 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:19 - But Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and Geshem the Arabian, hearing of it, made sport of us, laughing at us and saying, What are you doing? will you go against the king?

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:1 - Now when word was given to Sanballat and Tobiah and to Geshem the Arabian and to the rest of our haters, that I had done the building of the wall and that there were no more broken places in it (though even then I had not put up the doors in the doorways);

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:2 - Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, Come, let us have a meeting in one of the little towns in the lowland of Ono. But their purpose was to do me evil.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 6:6 - And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpose to be their king;
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