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title: נִמְרֹד — Nimrod · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נִמְרֹד (5248), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Nimrod. BDB 1906: n.pr.m. Nimrod. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נִמְרֹד

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«נִמְרֹד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Nimrod** — 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:** 4 times · **Key:** 5248 · **BDB:** נִמְרֹד

### Glosses

Nimrod (3); of.Nimrod (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Nimrod [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5248/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.m. Nimrod [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5248/#m2)

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**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.)

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נִמְרֹד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5248/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 10:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.8/)

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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.

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[1 Chronicles 1:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.10/)

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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.

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