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Nehemiah 1:1 (GN)

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1 This is the account of what Nehemiah son of Hacaliah accomplished. In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year that Artaxerxes was emperor of Persia, I, Nehemiah, was in Susa, the capital city.

Definition(s):
Artaxerxes (Ar-tax-erk-sees): the silence of light; fervent to spoil
Nehemiah (Ne-hem-eye-a): consolation; repentance of the Lord