5248. Nimrod

Strong's Lexicon

Nimrod: Nimrod

Original Word: נִמְרוֹד
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Transliteration: Nimrod
Pronunciation: nim-ROHD
Phonetic Spelling: (nim-rode')
Definition: Nimrod
Meaning: Nimrod

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
probably of foreign origin
Definition
a son of Cush and founder of the Bab. kingdom
NASB Translation
Nimrod (4).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

נִמְרֹד, נִמְרוֺד proper name, masculine Nimrod (etymology and meaning wholly unknown; Thes (dubious) below מָרַד rebel (of which Hebr. may have thought [compare Lag^{BN 105}]); in fact probably Babylonian name;

1 = a god e.g. Marduk, We^{compare Hexateuch (2), 308 f.; Nimrod, Encycl. Brit. (9). xvii. 511}, RS^{Semitic i. 91 n}.; 2d ed. 92; Hom^{PSBA xv (1893), 291-300} proposes Narûdu = *Namra-uddu, a star-god.

2 < name of Babylonian king or prince: Nu-marad = 'Man of Marad' compare Dl^{Pa 220} De^{Genesis 10:8} [1887]; more plausibly = Nazi-maraddash (marattash, murudas), Hpt^{AR July, 1884, 93 f.} Dl^{K (1884)} Say^{Ath. Feb. 16, 1895, Acad. Mar. 2, 1895} (compare Che^{ib. Mar. 9}), — i.e. a Kashite king, B.C. 1378, but dubious, compare Hpt^{BAS i (1889), 183}, Jerem^{Izdubar-Nimrod, 1891, 1 ff.}); — son of כּוּשׁ (q. v.), hero and hunter Genesis 10:8,9 (J; king in Babylonia, builder of Nineveh, etc. Genesis 10:10f.), נִמְרוֺד 1 Chronicles 1:10; אֶרֶץ נִמְרֹד Micah 5:5 ("" אֶרֶץ אַשּׁוּר); ᵐ5 Νεβρωδ.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Nimrod

Or Nimrod {nim-rode'}; probably of foreign origin; Nimrod, a son of Cush -- Nimrod.

Forms and Transliterations

כְּנִמְרֹ֛ד כנמרד נִמְר֑וֹד נִמְרֹ֑ד נִמְרֹ֖ד נמרד נמרוד kə·nim·rōḏ kenimRod kənimrōḏ nim·rō·wḏ nim·rōḏ nimRod nimrōḏ nimrōwḏ

Englishman's Concordance

Genesis 10:8
HEB: יָלַ֣ד אֶת־ נִמְרֹ֑ד ה֣וּא הֵחֵ֔ל
NAS: became the father of Nimrod; he became
KJV: And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be
INT: now Cush became of Nimrod he began

Genesis 10:9
HEB: כֵּן֙ יֵֽאָמַ֔ר כְּנִמְרֹ֛ד גִּבּ֥וֹר צַ֖יִד
NAS: it is said, Like Nimrod a mighty
KJV: it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty
INT: wherefore is said Nimrod A mighty hunter

1 Chronicles 1:10
HEB: יָלַ֣ד אֶת־ נִמְר֑וֹד ה֣וּא הֵחֵ֔ל
NAS: became the father of Nimrod; he began
KJV: begat Nimrod: he began
INT: Cush became of Nimrod he began

Micah 5:6
HEB: וְאֶת־ אֶ֥רֶץ נִמְרֹ֖ד בִּפְתָחֶ֑יהָ וְהִצִּיל֙
NAS: The land of Nimrod at its entrances;
KJV: and the land of Nimrod in the entrances
INT: the sword the land of Nimrod entrances will deliver

4 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 5248
4 Occurrences

kə·nim·rōḏ — 1 Occ.
nim·rōḏ — 3 Occ.