Bible Person
Meaning: my garment · Male · 2 cross references
Shalmai is a Nethinim family or servant-house name preserved in the returnee lists of Ezra and Nehemiah. It belongs to the service communities that support restored worship after exile. First appears in Ezra 2:46.1
AI summary: Shalmai matters because the cross references place the name among the temple-servant groups whose practical labor made post-exilic worship sustainable. These list entries preserve the breadth of the restored community beyond its most visible leaders. Taken together, the material presents Shalmai as a servant-house within the working structure of restoration.1
Central Figure
Shalmai
Meaning: my garment
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
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.