STRONGS H5248:
Abbreviations
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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, WeComp. Hexateuch (2), 308 f.; Nimrod, Encycl. Brit. (9). xvii. 511, RSSemitic i. 91 n.; 2d ed. 92; HomPSBA 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
Andover Rev. July, 1884, 93 f. Dl
K (1884) Say
Ath. Feb. 16, 1895, Acad. March 2, 1895 (compare Che
ib. March 9), — i.e. a Kashite king, B.C. 1378, but dubious, compare Hpt
BAS i (1889), 183, Jeremias
Izdubar-Nimrod, 1891, 1 ff.); — son of
כּוּשׁ (which see), 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);
Νεβρωδ.
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