Person Old Testament
Hashum
Hashum was an ancestor of exiles who returned to Jerusalem from Babylon. Mentioned in 3 verses across 2 books, first at Ezra 2:19.
Why it matters. Ancestor of exiles who returned to Jerusalem.
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Hashum
Hashum is mentioned as an ancestor of a group of exiles who returned to Jerusalem from Babylonian captivity. In the lists of returnees recorded in Ezra and Nehemiah, the descendants of Hashum are numbered at 223 (Ezr.2.19) and 328 (Neh.7.22) respectively. Later, in the time of Ezra, some of the descendants of Hashum were found to have married foreign women and pledged to put them away (Ezr.10.33). No further information about Hashum is provided in the Bible. (Ezr.2.19; 10.33; Neh.7.22).
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Appears in Scripture
Named in 3 verses across 2 books. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.