What Does Nehemiah 10:25 Mean?
Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,THE KEY
Three names make a path from compassion through considered thought into deed.
THE MEANING
You meet a line of names whose roots hold compassion, considered intention, and work. Together they let the roster speak of qualities carried into action.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A person’s name is only a label with no nature inside it.
THE ROOT
רְחוּם
Rehum
GROWS FROM
רחם
racham
To show compassion; to be tender.
Rehum carries the compassion-root that also forms the word for womb. The root lets compassion read as sheltering, life-bearing tenderness, not merely a distant sentiment.
ALSO GROWS
racham: To show compassion.
רָחַם
The verb makes compassion an active quality carried in Rehum’s name.
rachamim: Compassion, mercies.
רַחֲמִים
The plural form shows the root extending into acts or expressions of compassion.
rechem: Womb.
רֶחֶם
The shared root connects compassion with the sheltering place where life is held.
חֲשַׁבְנָה
Ḥashabnah
GROWS FROM
חשב
chashav
To think, reckon, or devise.
Hashabnah carries the root of thinking and reckoning. The root links inward thought with the act of forming a plan or accounting for what matters.
ALSO GROWS
chashav: To think, reckon, devise.
חָשַׁב
The verb makes thought an act of considering and shaping.
machashavah: Thought, plan.
מַחֲשָׁבָה
This branch shows the root taking shape as an intention or design.
cheshbon: Account, reckoning.
חֶשְׁבּוֹן
The same root connects thought with weighing or accounting for something.
מַעֲשֵׂיָה
Ma'aseiah
GROWS FROM
עשה
asah
To do or make.
Maaseiah carries the root that forms the word for a deed or work: the name holds action inside it. Its ending names Yah, placing that work in relation to the divine.
ALSO GROWS
asah: To do, make.
עָשָׂה
The verb is the seed of the work named in Maaseiah.
ma'aseh: Deed, work.
מַעֲשֶׂה
This noun shows the root as action brought into form.
asiyah: Doing, action.
עֲשִׂיָּה
The branch keeps the emphasis on work as an active process.
THE PATTERN
Names carry a nature that scripture also speaks as active qualities: compassion, considered thought, and work.
And the LORD passed by before his face, and called out, The LORD, The LORD God, compassionate and full of favor, slow to flare, abounding in faithful love and truth,Roll your works upon the LORD, and your plans stand firm.Let the sweetness of the LORD our God be upon us, and set firm upon us the work of our hands; the work of our hands, set it firm.THE THREAD
And the LORD passed by before his face, and called out, The LORD, The LORD God, compassionate and full of favor, slow to flare, abounding in faithful love and truth,The Hebrew רָחוּם (rachum, compassionate), rendered “merciful,” shares the רחם (racham, compassion) root with Rehum. The list’s first name carries the same compassion this verse names in the LORD.
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