Bible Person
Meaning: rescued from danger · Male · 5 cross references
Nimshi is remembered as the grandfather of Jehu through Jehoshaphat and is repeatedly named in connection with Jehu's rise. His significance comes through the dynasty-shifting role of his descendants. First appears in 1 Kgs 19:16.1
AI summary: Nimshi matters because the cross references preserve him as the ancestral name attached to Jehu's revolutionary line. The repeated formula 'son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi' gives his family identity lasting visibility at the moment the house of Ahab is about to fall. He himself does not act, but his name remains bound to that upheaval. Taken together, the material presents Nimshi as the remembered forebear behind Jehu's dynastic intervention.1
Central Figure
Nimshi
Meaning: rescued from danger
Saved.
Saved. Jehu was “the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi” (2 Kings 9:2; comp. 1 Kings 19:16). 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.