1. an Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in rebuilding Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity; [syn: Nehemiah, Book of Nehemiah]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Book of Nehemiah
n 1: an Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the
court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in
rebuilding Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity [syn:
Nehemiah, Book of Nehemiah]