Meshullam is a
Hebrew
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biblical masculine
name
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meaning "Befriended". It is appear in bible several times and refer to individual for their loyalty.
In the
Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (;["Tanach"](_blank)
. '' Gadites
According to the Bible, the Tribe of Gad () was one of the Twelve Tribes of Israel who, after the Exodus from Egypt, settled on the eastern side of the Jordan River. It is one of the ten lost tribes.
Biblical narrative
After the conquest of ...
in
Bashan
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during the time of Jotham ().
# Grandfather of
Shaphan
Shaphan (, which means "hyrax"), son of Azaliah, is the name of a scribe or court secretary mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible ( 2 Kings and ; and parallels in 2 Chronicles ; see also Jeremiah 26:24; ; 39:14; and following; and 43:6). ...
, "the scribe", in the reign of Josiah ().
# A priest, father of Hilkiah (),(), in the reign of
Ammon
Ammon (; Ammonite language, Ammonite: 𐤏𐤌𐤍 ''ʻAmān''; '; ) was an ancient Semitic languages, Semitic-speaking kingdom occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Wadi Mujib, Arnon and Jabbok, in present-d ...
; called Shallum in ().
# A Levite of the family of Kohath (), in the reign of Josiah.
# A son of Elpaal. ().
# One of two sons of
Zerubbabel
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, the other being Hananiah. ()
# A priest, head of the House of Ezra. ().
# A chief priest ().
# One of the leading Levites in the time of Ezra ().
# A priest ().
# One of the principal Israelites who supported
Ezra
Ezra ( fl. fifth or fourth century BCE) is the main character of the Book of Ezra. According to the Hebrew Bible, he was an important Jewish scribe (''sofer'') and priest (''kohen'') in the early Second Temple period. In the Greek Septuagint, t ...
when expounding the law to the people ().
See also
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List of minor biblical figures, L–Z
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List of people with the name Meshullam
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Israel Meshullam Solomon (1723–1794), born as Israel Meshullam Zalman Emden in Altona near Hamburg, Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom and rabbi of the
Hambro Synagogue
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Meshullam Feivush Heller
Reb Meshullam Feivush Heller of Zbarazh (c. 1742– 12 December 1794) was the author of several Hasidic '' sefarim'' including the Yosher Divrei Emes.
Biography
Rabbi Meshullam Feivush was born to a rabbinic family. His father Harav Aharon Moshe ...
of Zbarazh (c.1742–1794), author of several Hasidic sefarim including the Yosher Divrei Emes
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Meshulam Fayish Tzvi (Herman) Gross or Grosz (1863–1947), businessman, inventor, learned layman, and author
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Meshullam Phoebus ben Israel Samuel
Meshullam Phoebus ben Israel Samuel (; – October 17, 1617) was a Polish rabbi, who served as ''av beit din'' of Kraków.
Biography
Meshullam Phoebus ben Israel Samuel was born around 1547. He initially gained recognition as the head of a thriv ...
(–1617), Polish rabbi
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Meshullam HaKohen ben Ya'akov, also known as Rabbeinu Meshullam haGodol (Rabbi Meshullam the Great), Franco-Jewish Talmudist of the twelfth century CE
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Moshe Meshullam Halevy Horowitz (1832–1894), Galician rabbi
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Yerucham ben Meshullam (1290–1350), prominent rabbi and posek during the period of the Rishonim
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