Dict: smith - REHUM

smith:

REHUM - R>@ - (merciful). One who went up from Babylon with Zerubbabel. kjv@Ezra:2:2) (B.C. 536.) "Rehum the chancellor." kjv@Ezra:4:8-9 kjv@Ezra:4:17,23) He was perhaps a kind of lieutenant-governor of the province under the king of Persia. (B.C. 535.) A Levite of the family of Bani, who assisted in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. kjv@Nehemiah:3:17) (B.C. 445.) One of the chief of the people, who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. kjv@Nehemiah:10:25) (B.C. 410.) A priestly family, or the head of a priestly house, who went up with Zerubbabel. kjv@Nehemiah:12:3) (B.C. 536.)