The hebrew for “Nehemiah” is Nehemyah, “Comfort of Yahweh.” The book has been established to have come from the personal memoirs of Nehemiah. 1 The words of Nehemiah son of Hacaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa, Neh 5:19: Think upon me, my God, [...]