נִמְרֹד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5248

Nimrod — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Nimrod tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִמְרֹד: n.pr.m. Nimrod tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr.m. Nimrod (etym. and meaning wholly unknown; Thes (dub.) sub מָרַד rebel (of which Hebr. may have thought [cf. LagBN 105]); in fact prob. Bab. name; 1. = a god e.g. Marduk, WeComp. Hex. (2), 308 f.; Nimrod, Encycl. Brit. (9), xvii. 511, RSSem. i. 91 n.; 2d ed. 92; HomPSBA xv (1893), 291–300 proposes Narûdu = Namra-uddu, a star-god. 2. Nu-marad = ‘Man of Marad’ cf. DlPa 220 De Gn 10:8 [1887]; more plausibly = Nazi-maraddash, HptAndover Rev. July, 1884, 93 f. DlK (1884) SayAthen. Feb. 16, 1895, Acad. Mar. 2, 1895 (cf. Cheib. Mar. 9),—i.e. a Kashite kg., b. c. 1378, but dub., cf. HptBAS i (1889), 183, JeremiasIzdubar-Nimrod, 1891, 1 ff.;—son of כּוּשׁ (q.v.), hero and hunter Gn 10:8, 9 (J; kg. in Babylonia, builder of Nineveh, etc. v 10 f.), נִמְרוֹד 1 Ch 1:10; אֶרֶץ נִמְרֹד Mi 5:5 (‖ אֶרֶץ אַשּׁוּר); 𝔊 Νεβρωδ.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Nimrod (3); of Nimrod (1).

In the verses

Genesis 10:8 · tree →

וְכ֖וּשׁ יָלַ֣ד אֶת־נִמְרֹ֑ד ה֣וּא הֵחֵ֔ל לִֽהְי֥וֹת גִּבֹּ֖ר בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

Word for word: and Cush he.fathered (et) Nimrod he he.began to be a.mighty.[man] on the earth

JPS 1917: And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

1 Chronicles 1:10 · tree →

וְכ֖וּשׁ יָלַ֣ד אֶת־נִמְר֑וֹד ה֣וּא הֵחֵ֔ל לִהְי֥וֹת גִּבּ֖וֹר בָּאָֽרֶץ׃ס

Word for word: and Cush he.fathered (et) Nimrod he he.began to be a.mighty.[man] on the earth

JPS 1917: And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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