Lexical Definition

‎חָשֻׁם‎ Châshum (khaw-shoom') Hashum ^N:N-M-P
from the same as ‎חַשְׁמַן‎; enriched

Hashum.

• § Hashum = "rich"
• Chashum, the name of two or three Israelites

1) head of a family of 223 exiles returning with Zerubbabel
2) one of the priests or Levites who stood on Ezra's left while he read the law

Extended Information

• A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.19

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎חָשֻׁם‎ proper name, masculine head of a family of returned exiles Ezra 2:19 = Neh 7:22; Ezra 10:33 compare Neh 8:4; Neh 10:19*.

Brown-Driver-Briggs References

Profile

Male • Family from exile • Ancestor of exiles who returned to Jerusalem.

Man living at the time of Exile and Return

Hashum was an ancestor of exiles who returned to Jerusalem from Babylon. (Ezr.2.19; 10.33; Neh.7.22)

• A man living at the time of Exile and Return, first mentioned at Ezr.2.19;
• only referred to as Hashum חָשֻׁם.

Hashum is mentioned as an ancestor of a group of exiles who returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian captivity. In the lists of returnees recorded in Ezra and Nehemiah, the descendants of Hashum are numbered at 223 (Ezra 2:19) and 328 (Nehemiah 7:22) respectively. Later, in the time of Ezra, some of the descendants of Hashum were found to have married foreign women and pledged to put them away (Ezra 10:33). No further information about Hashum is provided in the Bible. (Ezr.2.19; 10.33; Neh.7.22).

All entries for Hashum: חָשֻׁם