Atomic Bible

Ancestor of exiles who returned to Jerusalem.

Hashum

Named in 3 verses across 2 books, first in Ezra 2:19.

חָשֻׁםHashum

The name means “silence; their hasting.” Hitchcock's Bible Names, 1869

About Hashum Written by AI

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).

Drafted by an AI model for STEPBible's TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Check it against the verses below.

Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897

This entry is on the name Hashum, and may cover more than one person or place by that name.

Opulent. (1.) Ezra 2:19; Neh. 7:22. (2.) Stood on Ezra’s left hand while he read the law (Neh. 8:4).

M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, third edition (1897), public domain, from CrossWire. Shown as written; its Scripture quotes are from older translations.

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Where the Bible names him

  1. Ezra 2:19

    the descendants of Hashum, 223;

  2. Ezra 10:33

    From the descendants of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.

  3. Nehemiah 7:22

    the descendants of Hashum, 328;

From STEPBible's TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0): names, family, references and the AI written article. Verse text is the BSB.