Hashum
חָשֻׁם · cha.shum · H2828G“silence; their hasting” Hitchcock's 18693 mentions in 2 books, most in Ezra (2)
Who he was
Hashum is mentioned as an ancestor of a group of exiles who returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian captivity. In the lists of returnees recorded in Ezra and Nehemiah, the descendants of Hashum are numbered at 223 (Ezra 2:19) and 328 (Nehemiah 7:22) respectively. Later, in the time of Ezra, some of the descendants of Hashum were found to have married foreign women and pledged to put them away (Ezra 10:33). No further information about Hashum is provided in the Bible. (Ezra 2:19; 10.33; Nehemiah 7:22).
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Every mention
3 references, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
Ezra 2 mentions
Ezra 2:19The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty-three.Ezra 10:33Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.
Nehemiah 1 mention
What the dictionary says
Opulent.
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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- STEPBible TIPNR · Translators Individualised Proper Names with all References · CC BY 4.0 · github.com/STEPBible/STEPBible-Data
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · Public domain