Associations to the word «Nehemiah»

Wiktionary

NEHEMIAH, proper noun. A governor of Judea who was, according to the Tanakh, sent by the king of Persia to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
NEHEMIAH, proper noun. The sixteenth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh.
NEHEMIAH, proper noun. A male given name of biblical origin.

Dictionary definition

NEHEMIAH, noun. An Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in rebuilding Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity.

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca