Bible Names

Nehum: meaning of the name

Nehum means “comforter; penitent.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Nehum in Hebrew and Greek

נְחוּם H5149

Nᵉchûwm (neh-khoom') — Nechum, an Israelite

from H5162 (נָחַם); comforted;

Nehum in Scripture

“Nehum” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Nehemiah 7:7

    Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;