Ne he miah

[Heb. Nechhemiah =comforted of Jehovah; Gr. Neemias.] Script . Biography : Three persons of this name are mentioned in Scripture: One who came with Zerubbabel from Babylon (Ezra ii. 2; Neh. vii. 7); another, the son of Azbuk (Neh. iii. 16); and lastly the celebrated Jewish leader, the son of Hachaliah (Neh. i. 1), and brother of Hanani (i. 2, vii. 2). In the twentieth year of the reign of Artaxerxes Long i man us, king or emperor of Persia (B. C. 445), he was cupbearer to the monarch. Questioned as to why he looked sad, he replied that his sorrow arose from the reflection that the city (Jerusalem), the place of his ancestors' sepulchres, lay waste, with its gates burnt (Neh. ii. 3). He requested permi ion to rebuild the city, and was allowed temporary leave of absence to carry out the project. Carrying with him letters from the king designed to secure co-operation from various quarters, he proceeded to Jerusalem, obtained zealous a istance from his countrymen,and, notwithstanding Samaritan and other opposition, rebuilt the wall. An inscription in the earliest Hebrew, discovered in 1880 in the tunnel cut through the rocks which conducts the water of the Virgin's Spring, the Gihon of Scripture, into the modern pool Entom.: A black dipterous insect, Psila Rosa. of Siloam, has become the starting point for com IMG:content-1632.png:[blocks in formation] Zool.: Midas ursulus , from the region of the Amazon. It is about nine inches in length, with a tail nearly twice as long. The fur is black, with a reddish-brown streak down the middle of the back. It is of a low type of intelligence, but some become tame and familiar. (MIDAS.] negro's-head, s. Bot.: The Ivory Palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, from the appearance of the fruit. Negro's-head palm : [NEGRO'S-HEAD]. Gr.eidos =appearance.]