(consolation), one of those who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 7:7)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia 1915
ne'-hum (nechum): One of the twelve heads of the people who returned with Zerubbabel (Ne 7:7). In the parallel passage (Ezr 2:2), the name appears as REHUM (which see), and in 1 Esdras 5:8 as "Roimus."