STRONGS NUMBER H7348


Word Summary
Rchuwm: "compassion", the name of several Israelites
Original Word: רְחוּם
Transliteration: Rchuwm
Phonetic Spelling: (rekh-oom')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: "compassion", the name of several Israelites
Meaning: Rehum -- "compassion", the name of several Israelites
Strong's Concordance
Rehum

A form of rachuwm; Rechum, the name of a Persian and of three Israelites -- Rehum.

see HEBREW rachuwm

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7348. Rchuwm

רְחֻם רְחוּם,proper name, masculine (compassion, or softness, Gentleness ?); — post-exilic name:

1 with Zerubbabel:

a. רְחוּםEzra 2:2, A Ιρεουμ’, ᵐ5L Ναουμ ( = נְחוּם‎ "" Nehemiah 7:7).

b. priest, רְחֻםNehemiah 12:3 Ρεουμ ( = חָרִם12:15, compare 7:42 = Ezra 2:39; 10:21, see חָרִם3a).

2 רְחוּם‎, with Nehemiah:

a. Levite Nehemiah 3:17, Βασουθ, א‎ A ᵐ5L Ραουμ.

b. Nehemiah 10:26, Ρα[ε]ουμ.

רְחוּםproper name, masculine Persian official Ezra 4:8 (usually explained from √ רחם‎, see Biblical Hebrew; Scheft92 thinks possibly originally רוחם‎, Old Iranian proper name rukma, = splendour).