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<p> (Heb. id. גֶּשֶׁם a ''Shower,'' if Heb.; Fü rst, ''Firmness;'' but more prob. the Arabic Jasim or Jahum, a historical name in [[Arabia]] Proper; Sept. Γηρσώμ, Vulg. ''Gesam'' ), once (&nbsp;Nehemiah 6:6) in the prolonged form GASH'MU (He.). ''Gashmu''' , גִּשְׁמוּ ), as Arabian (&nbsp;Nehemiah 2:19; &nbsp;Nehemiah 6:1), and one of the enemies of the [[Jews]] on the returns from the exile, especially in the plots against the life of Nehemiah (&nbsp;Nehemiah 6:2). B.C. 446. Geshem, we may conclude, was an inhabitant of Arabia Petraea, or of the Arabian Desert, and probably the chief of a tribe which, like most of the tribes on the osastern frontier of Palestine, was, in the time of the captivity and the subsequent period, allied with the Persians, or with any peoples threatening the [[Jewish]] nation. Geshems, like Sanballat and Tobiab, seems to have been one of the "governors beyond the river," to whom Nehemiah came, and whose mission "grieved them exceedingly, that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel" (&nbsp;Nehemiah 2:10); for the wsardering inhabitants of the frontier doubtless availed themnselves largely, in their predatory excursions, of the distracted state of Palestine, and dreaded the re-establishment of the kingdom; and the Arabians, Ammonites, and [[Ashdodites]] are recorded as having "conspired to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder" its repairing. (See [[Nehemiah]]). </p>

<p> ''''' gē´shem ''''' ( גּשׁם , <i> ''''' geshem ''''' </i> , גּשׁמוּ , <i> ''''' gashmū ''''' </i> ; Γῆσαμ , <i> ''''' Gḗsam ''''' </i> , "rain storm"): An Arabian, probably chief of an Arabian tribe that had either settled in Southern Palestine during the exile in Babylon, or had been settled in or near Samaria by Sargon (&nbsp; Nehemiah 2:19; &nbsp;Nehemiah 6:1 , &nbsp;Nehemiah 6:2 , &nbsp;Nehemiah 6:6 ). He was a confederate of Sanballat and Tobiah, and strenuously opposed the building of the wall under Nehemiah. He with the others mocked at the first efforts to build the wall, and afterward repeatedly sought to entice Nehemiah to the plains of Ono. The name also occurs in the form <i> '''''Gashmū''''' </i> , perhaps an [[Assyrian]] form of the same name Geshem. </p>