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Neri was an ancestor of Jesus, mentioned in Luke's genealogy.
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Neri was an ancestor of Jesus Christ, mentioned in the genealogy found in the Gospel of Luke (Luk.3.27). He was the son of Melchi and the father of Shealtiel. No other details about Neri's life are provided in the Bible. His name means "my light" in Hebrew.
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short form for Neriah (Jehovah is my lamp) son of Melchi and father of Salathiel, in the genealogy of Christ.
NE'RI (lamp of Jehovah), one of the ancestors of our Lord. Luke 3:27.
NE'RI (lamp of Jehovah), one of the ancestors of our Lord. Luke 3:27.
Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.
1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s G3518
the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,
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