אִמֵּרʼImmêr
Immer, the name of five Israelites
Pronunciation: im-mare' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H564
Meanings
1. a priest assigned to David's time (1 Chronicles 24:14)
2. ancestor of priest (1 Chronicles 9:12; Nehemiah 11:13; Ezra 2:37)
3. priest in Jeremiah's time (Jeremiah 20:1)
4. father of Zadok (Nehemiah 3:29)
5. (?) (Ezra 2:59; Nehemiah 7:61)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 10 times in the Bible.
- 1 Chronicles 9:12 Other returning priests were Adaiah son of Jeroham, son of Pashhur, son of Malkijah, and Maasai son of Adiel, son of Jahzerah, son of Meshullam, son of Meshillemith, son of Immer.
- 1 Chronicles 24:14 The fifteenth lot fell to Bilgah. The sixteenth lot fell to Immer.
- Ezra 2:37 The family of Immer 1,052
- Ezra 2:59 Another group returned at this time from the towns of Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Kerub, Addan, and Immer. However, they could not prove that they or their families were descendants of Israel.
- Ezra 10:20 From the family of Immer: Hanani and Zebadiah.
- Nehemiah 3:29 Next Zadok son of Immer also rebuilt the wall across from his own house, and beyond him was Shemaiah son of Shecaniah, the gatekeeper of the East Gate.
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).