Bible Person
Meaning: silence; their hasting · Male · 3 cross references
Hashum is the ancestral or house-name behind a returnee family listed in Ezra and Nehemiah. It belongs to the many concrete households through which the post-exilic community is rebuilt. First appears in Ezra 2:19.1
AI summary: Hashum matters because the cross references place the house in both the return lists and later reform scenes, showing that restoration required ongoing household participation and covenant correction. Taken together, the material presents Hashum as a returnee house woven into the rebuilding and reform of the restored community.1
Central Figure
Hashum
Meaning: silence; their hasting
Ezra 2:19; Neh.
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.