Nahum in Easton's Bible Dictionary
consolation, the seventh of the so-called minor prophets, an
Elkoshite. All we know of him is recorded in the book
of his
prophecies. He was probably a native of Galilee, and
after the
deportation of the ten tribes took up his residence in
Jerusalem. Others think that Elkosh was the name of a
place on
the east bank of the Tigris, and that Nahum dwelt
there.
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