Hanamel

Hanamel son of Shallum was Jeremiah's cousin who sold the prophet a field at Anathoth during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, an episode that became a powerful symbolic act of faith in God's promise of future restoration (Jeremiah 32:7–12). Jeremiah paid the full price of seventeen shekels of silver, executed the deed of purchase with witnesses, and sealed the documents in a clay jar as a testimony that 'houses and fields and vineyards shall again be bought in this land.' The transaction remains one of the most memorable prophetic object lessons in the Hebrew Bible.