{"def":{"lit":"friend","short":"Meshullam, the name of seventeen Israelites","long":["grandfather of Shaphan, the scribe","son of Zerubbabel","a Benjamite of the sons of Elpaal","a Benjamite, father of Sallu","a Benjamite who lived at Jerusalem after the captivity","a Benjamite",["perhaps the same as 3 or 4"],"a Gadite in the reign of king Jotham of Judah","son of Berechiah who assisted in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem","son of Besodeiah who assisted Jehoiada the son of Paseah in restoring the old gate of Jerusalem","a chief of the people who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah","father of Hilkiah and high priest probably in the reign of king Amon of Judah 11a) perhaps the same as 'Shallum'","a priest, son of Meshillemith or Meshillemoth, son of Immer, and ancestor of Maasiai or Amashai","a priest or family of priests who sealed the covenant with Nehemiah","a priest, head of the family of Ginnethon and representative of the house of Ezra in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua","a priest, one of the princes of Judah at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem","a Kohathite or family of Kohathite Levites in the reign of Josiah","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","ancestor of a family of porters or Levites in days of Nehemiah","a descendant of Bani who had a foreign wife and put her away","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"]},"deriv":"from H7999; allied","pronun":{"ipa":"mɛ̆.ʃulˈlɔːm","ipa_mod":"mɛ̆.ʃuˈlɑːm","sbl":"mĕšullām","dic":"meh-shool-LAWM","dic_mod":"meh-shoo-LAHM"}}