נֶחֱלָמִי
Nehelamite
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Nehelamite’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H5161 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Jeremiah 3 verses
- Jeremiah 29:24 הַ/נֶּחֱלָמִ֖י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite you shall speak, saying,
- Jeremiah 29:31 הַ/נֶּחֱלָמִ֑י ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you, and I didn't send him, and he has caused you to trust in a lie;
- Jeremiah 29:32 הַ/נֶּחֱלָמִי֮ ptcl def.art + n Gentilic ms therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed; he shall not have a man to dwell among this people, neither shall he see the good that I will do to my people, says Yahweh, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
נחלמי (Nechĕlâmîy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Nehelamite.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. It clusters heavily in Jeremiah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It first appears in Jeremiah 29:24. See 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5161 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Jeremiah 3 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Nehelamite 3×
- American Standard Version: Nehelamite 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Nehelamite 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5161 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5161 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5161 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Nehelamite = "he of the dream"
- the designation of a false prophet Shemaiah taken into captivity to Babylon…
Word origin
נֶחֱלָמִי adj.gent. (noun not found)
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חלם (châlam) (H2492) — to dream.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H5161 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/נֶּחֱלָמִ֑י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 29:31 | 1 |
| הַ/נֶּחֱלָמִ֖י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 29:24 | 1 |
| הַ/נֶּחֱלָמִי֮ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 29:32 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5161, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- אחלמה ʼachlâmâh H306 amethyst
- חלום chălôwm H2472 dream
- חלם chêlem H2493 dream
- חלמות challâmûwth H2495 purslane
- חלמיש challâmîysh H2496 flint
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Nehelamite). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
The name given to a false prophet Shemaiah, who went with the captives to Babylon (Jer. 29:24, 31, 32). The origin of the name is unknown. It is rendered in the marg, "dreamer."
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
dreamer; vale; brook
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
