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Nehelamite
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Nehelamite: NET NIV NASBNehelam: AVS NRSV TEV
family name or place of origin (IBD).
dreamer; vale; brook
dreamer; vale; brook
Hebrew
Strongs #05161: ymlxn Nechelamiy
Nehelamite = "he of the dream"1) the designation of a false prophet Shemaiah taken into captivity
to Babylon; name is formed from his native place or his progenitor
5161 Nechelamiy nekh-el-aw-mee'
apparently a patronymic from an unused name (apparentlypassive participle of 2492); dreamed; a Nechelamite, or
descendant of Nechlam:-Nehelamite.
see HEBREW for 02492
Nehelamite [EBD]
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."