person
Nahamani
נַחֲמָנִי
Nahamani was among those who returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian captivity with Zerubbabel.
- verses
- 1
- first named
- Nehemiah 7:7
- last named
- Nehemiah 7:7
- period
- Exile and Return
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Nahamani?
Nahamani is mentioned in Neh.7.7 as one of the individuals who returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian captivity along with Zerubbabel. This event marked a significant moment in Jewish history, as the exiles were allowed to return to their homeland and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem following the decree of King Cyrus of Persia.
The list in Nehemiah 7 records the names of the men who led the first group of returning exiles. Nahamani's inclusion in this list suggests that he held a position of some importance or responsibility among the returnees. However, beyond his name and his participation in the return from exile, no additional information is provided about Nahamani's background, family, or specific role in the community.
The return of Nahamani and the other exiles was a pivotal step in the restoration of Jewish religious and cultural identity in their homeland. The rebuilding of the temple and the city of Jerusalem was a crucial task that lay ahead of them, and the leadership and dedication of individuals like Nahamani were essential to the success of this endeavor.
Nahamani's presence in the list of returnees serves as a testament to the resilience and faith of the Jewish people, who had endured decades of captivity in Babylon and yet remained committed to their God and their ancestral homeland.
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Direct connections
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A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
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The pattern
Where Nahamani is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Nehemiah (1).
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