Nimrod
Nimrod (Hebrew: נִמְרוֹד, Modern Nimrod Tiberian Nimrōḏ Aramaic:
ܢܡܪܘܕ Arabic: نمرود) is according to the Book of Genesis, a
great-grandson of Noah and the king of Shinar. He is depicted
in the Bible as both a man of power in the earth and mighty
hunter. He also figures in many legends and folktales outside
the Bible. Extra-Biblical traditio...
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He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said,
Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD....
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And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and
the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he
deliver [us] from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land,
and when he treadeth within our borders....
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And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the
earth....
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nim'-rod (nimrodh; Nebrod): A descendant of Ham, mentioned
in "the generations of the sons of Noah" (Gen 10; compare 1
Ch 1:10) as a son of Cush. He established his kingdom "in
the land of Shinar," including the cities "Babel, and Erech,
and Accad, and Calneh" (Gen 10:10), of which only Babel, or
Babylon, and Erech, or Uruk, have been identifi...
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-Son of Cush
-"A mighty hunter before the Lord,"
Ge 10:8,9; 1Ch 1:10
-Founder of Babylon
-See BABYLON...
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(rebellion; or the valiant), a son of Cush and grandson of
Ham. The events of his life are recorded in Ge 10:8 ff., from
which we learn (1) that he was a Cushite; (2) that he
established an empire in Shinar (the classical Babylonia) the
chief towns being Babel, Erech, Accad and Calneh; and (3) that
he extended this empire northward along the c...
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firm, a descendant of Cush, the son of Ham. He was the first
who
claimed to be a "mighty one in the earth." Babel was
the
beginning of his kingdom, which he gradually enlarged
(Gen.
10:8-10). The "land of Nimrod" (Micah 5:6) is a
designation of
Assyria or of Shinar, which is a part of it....
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Cush's son or descendant, Ham's grandson (Genesis 10:8).
"Nimrod began to be a mighty one in the earth," i.e. he was
the first of Noah's descendants who became renowned for bold
and daring deeds, the Septuagint "giant" (compare Genesis 6:4;
Genesis 6:13; Isaiah 13:3). "He was a mighty hunter before
Jehovah," so that it passed into a proverb or...
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rebellion (but probably an unknown Assyrian word)...
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