Shelemiah (Hastings' Dictionary)

1. (B ZcXfftii, A SfXf/x/os) One of the sons of Bani, who married a ' strange wife in the time of Ezra, Ezr lO^" ; called Selemias in 1 Es 9^. 2. (B TtXe/i'i. S TeXe^'as) Father of Hananiah, who restored part of the wall of Jeru- salem, Neh 3^". His son is perhaps ' Hananiah, one of the apothecaries' (Neh 3, AV 'son of one of the apoth.'), i.e. makers of perfumes, who restored another portion of the wall. 3. A priest who was appointed by Nehemiah to be one of the treasurers over the treasuries, to distribute the Levitical tithes, Neh 13". i. The father of Jehucal or Jucal in the time of Zedekiah, Jer 37', 38' ; in the latter passage his name appears in the longer form in-oW. S. The fatlier of Iriiah, the captain of the ward who arrested Jeremiah as a deserter to the Chalda;ans, Jer 37". 6. (•.■^:^^s^ B Zo.\a^l(L6., A 2e- Xe^id) 1 Ch 26" = Meshelemiah, MeshuUam, or Shallum, the head of a family of porters. 7. An- other of the sons of Bani who married a ' strange wife in the time of Ezra, Ezr 10'. 8. Ancestor of the Jehudi who lived in the time of Jehoiakim, Jer 36'''. 9. (LXX om.) Son of Abdeel, and one of those sent by Jehoiakim to take Baruch and Jeremiah, Jer SO"*. H. St. J. Tuackeray.