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title: נִינְוֵה — Nineveh · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נִינְוֵה (5210), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 17 times: Nineveh. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. Nineveh. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נִינְוֵה

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«נִינְוֵה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Nineveh** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 17 times · **Key:** 5210 · **BDB:** נִינְוֵה

### Glosses

Nineveh (14); of.Nineveh (3)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Nineveh [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5210/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. Nineveh [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5210/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Nineveh, capital of Assyria (Assyrian Ninâ, Ninua, Ninû, cf. Schr COT Gloss. DlPar260);—Gn 10:11, 12 (J), 2 K 19:36 = Is 37:37, Na 1:1; 2:9; 3:7; Zp 2:13 Jon 1:2; 3:3a, 4, 5, 6, 7, called הָעִיר הַגְּדוֹלָה v 3b; 4:11 (cf. 3:4f.); 𝔊 Νινευη, 𝔊L Νινευι. Site on E. bank of Tigris marked by mounds Neby Yunus and Kuyundjik, opposite Mosul. Cf. Layard Nineveh and its Remains, 1848; Monuments of N. 1849 f. Billerbeck u. Jeremias BAS iii. 1 (1895), 107 ff.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נִינְוֵה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5210/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Nahum 1:1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.1/)

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מַשָּׂ֖א נִֽינְוֵ֑ה סֵ֧פֶר חֲז֛וֹן נַח֖וּם הָאֶלְקֹשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* the.oracle of.Nineveh the.document of.the.vision of.Nahum the Elkoshite

*JPS 1917:* THE BURDEN of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

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[Genesis 10:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.12/)

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וְֽאֶת־רֶ֔סֶן בֵּ֥ין נִֽינְוֵ֖ה וּבֵ֣ין כָּ֑לַח הִ֖וא הָעִ֥יר הַגְּדֹלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Resen between Nineveh and between Calah that \[is\].the city (the) great

*JPS 1917:* and Resen between Nineveh and Calah — the same is the great city.

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