מְשֻׁלָּם

Strong’s Definition

Meshullam, the name of seventeen Israelites

Etymology & Derivation

from H7999 (שָׁלַם); allied;

KJV Usage

Meshullam.

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.perhaps the same as 3 or 4
• 2.grandfather of shaphan, the scribe
• 3.son of zerubbabel
• 4.a benjamite of the sons of elpaal
• 5.a benjamite, father of sallu
• 6.a benjamite who lived at jerusalem after the captivity
• 7.a benjamite
• 8.a gadite in the reign of king jotham of judah
• 9.son of berechiah who assisted in rebuilding the wall of jerusalem
• 10.son of besodeiah who assisted jehoiada the son of paseah in restoring the old gate of jerusalem
• 11.a chief of the people who sealed the covenant with nehemiah
• 12.father of hilkiah and high priest probably in the reign of king amon of judah 11a) perhaps the same as 'shallum'
• 13.a priest, son of meshillemith or meshillemoth, son of immer, and ancestor of maasiai or amashai
• 14.a priest or family of priests who sealed the covenant with nehemiah
• 15.a priest, head of the family of ginnethon and representative of the house of ezra in the days of joiakim, the son of jeshua
• 16.a priest, one of the princes of judah at the dedication of the wall of jerusalem
• 17.a kohathite or family of kohathite levites in the reign of josiah
• 18.a levite, one of the heads sent to iddo to gather the levites to join the caravan about to return to jerusalem; a chief man who assisted ezra in abolishing the marriages which some of the people had made with foreign wives
• 19.ancestor of a family of porters or levites in days of nehemiah
• 20.a descendant of bani who had a foreign wife and put her away
• 21.one of the men who stood at the left hand of ezra when he read the law to the people 20a) maybe the same as 17

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: Mᵉshullâm; Pronunciation: mesh-ool-lawm'