nehemiah

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A governor of Judea sent by the Persian king to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem
A male given name of biblical origin
A book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh
{i} Jewish leader of the fifth century who led exiled Jews back to Judea from Persia (Biblical); book of the Old Testament (Biblical); male first name
flourished 5th century BC Jewish leader who supervised the rebuilding of Jerusalem. His story is told in the biblical book of Nehemiah. He was cupbearer to the Persian ruler Artaxerxes I soon after the end of the Babylonian Exile, when the Temple of Jerusalem had been rebuilt but the Jewish community was still weak and fragmented. Around 444 BC he was put in charge of Jerusalem's reconstruction, and he organized the rebuilding of the city walls. He also revived adherence to Mosaic law and forbade intermarriage with non-Jews. His work as a reformer was later continued by Ezra
an Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in rebuilding Jeruslaem after the Babylonian Captivity

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Nehemiah Grew
(baptized Sept. 26, 1641, Mancetter Parish, Warwickshire, Eng. died March 25, 1712, London) British botanist. A physician and professor, Grew's training in animal anatomy led to his interest in that of plants. His writings noted the existence of cells and coined such terms as radicle (for the embryonic root), plume (for the primary bud of a plant embryo; now called plumule), and parenchyma (for unspecialized cells). His Anatomy of Plants (1682) contained the first thorough account of plant anatomy; its many excellent wood engravings represented the three-dimensional, microscopic structure of plant tissue. He presented, among other fundamental discoveries, the suggestion that the stamen (with its pollen) is the male sex organ and the pistil corresponds to the female sex organ. With Marcello Malpighi, Grew is considered a founder of the science of plant anatomy
nehemiah

    Hyphenation

    Ne·he·mi·ah

    Turkish pronunciation

    niımayı

    Pronunciation

    /ˌnēəˈmīə/ /ˌniːəˈmaɪə/

    Etymology

    () Hebrew נְחֶמְיָה, "consolation of Yahweh".
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