Person Old Testament
Imri
Imri was the father of Zaccur, who helped rebuild the wall of Jerusalem. Mentioned once in Scripture, at Nehemiah 3:2.
Why it matters. Father of Zaccur, helped rebuild Jerusalem's wall.
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Imri
Imri was the father of Zaccur, who is mentioned in Neh.3.2 as one of the people involved in rebuilding the wall of Jerusalem. Zaccur worked on repairing the section of the wall next to the high priest Eliashib. No other details are provided about Imri himself in the biblical text. His name means "eloquent" in Hebrew.
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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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
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Appears in Scripture
Named in 1 verse across 1 book. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.
Nehemiah (1 verse)