Immer

Immer is the name of a priestly family, and it comes up where Scripture counts people. Among those who returned from exile, “The children of Immer” numbered “a thousand fifty and two,” and the list is repeated in Nehemiah. Some who came up from Immer and other towns “could not shew their father’s house,” so their place was uncertain. Two of his sons later appear in a list of those who had to put away foreign wives. His most vivid descendant is Pashur, who as a priest and chief governor struck Jeremiah and put him in the stocks. Jeremiah 20 tells that story.

7 verses

1 Chronicles

1 Chronicles 9:12

And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

Ezra

Ezra 2:37

The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.

Ezra 2:59

And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

Ezra 10:20

And of the sons of Immer; Hanani, and Zebadiah.

Nehemiah

Nehemiah 7:40

The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.

Jeremiah

Jeremiah 20:1

Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

Jeremiah 20:2

Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary

Matthew George Easton, 1897

Talkative. (1.) The head of the sixteenth priestly order (1 Chr. 24:14). (2.) Jer. 20:1. (3.) Ezra 2:37; Neh. 7:40. (4.) Ezra 2:59; Neh. 7:61. (5.) The father of Zadok (Neh. 3:29).

From Smith's Bible Dictionary

William Smith, 1884

(talkative).

(1.) The founder of an important family of priests. (1 Chronicles 9:12; Nehemiah 11:13) This family had charge of, and gave its name to, the sixteenth course of the service. (1 Chronicles 24:14) (B.C. 1014.)

(2.) Apparently the name of a place in Babylonia. (Ezra 2:59; Nehemiah 7:61)