גֶּשֶׁםGeshem
גֶּ֫שֶׁם: proper name, masculine: an opponent of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 2:19; Nehemiah 6:1; Nehemiah 6:2; Nehemiah 6:6)
Pronunciation: gheh'-shem · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1654
Meanings
גַּשְׁמוּ: proper name: see I. גֶּשֶׁם above
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 4 times in the Bible.
- Nehemiah 2:19 But when Sanballat, Tobiah, and Geshem the Arab heard of our plan, they scoffed contemptuously. “What are you doing? Are you rebelling against the king?” they asked.
- Nehemiah 6:1 Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies found out that I had finished rebuilding the wall and that no gaps remained—though we had not yet set up the doors in the gates.
- Nehemiah 6:2 So Sanballat and Geshem sent a message asking me to meet them at one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But I realized they were plotting to harm me,
- Nehemiah 6:6 and this is what it said: “There is a rumor among the surrounding nations, and Geshem tells me it is true, that you and the Jews are planning to rebel and that is why you are building the wall. According to his reports, you plan to be their king.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).