Bible Person
Meaning: who waits for the Lord · Male · 2 cross references
Hachaliah is the father of Nehemiah and Hanani, remembered through the family background of the leader who rebuilds Jerusalem's wall. He belongs to the household setting behind one of the major restoration figures. First appears in Neh 1:1.1
AI summary: Hachaliah matters because the cross references place his name behind Nehemiah's identity at the opening of the book and at the covenant renewal later on. Though he is not an active narrative figure, his preserved name anchors Nehemiah within a remembered family line. Taken together, the material presents Hachaliah as the paternal background to one of the central leaders of post-exilic restoration.1
Central Figure
Hachaliah
Meaning: who waits for the Lord
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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.