wholesome water
Lane
2853, also
We
l.c.)
;only
מֵי נִמְרִים
Is 15:6 Je 48:3
4; prob.
=
Βηνναµαρειµ
Lag
Onom. 284, 33, in
Wady Numêre
at SE. end of Dead Sea,
Buhl
Geogr. 272.
נִמְרֹד
S
5248
GK
5808
,
נִמְרֹוד
n.pr.m.
Nimrod
(
etym. and meaning wholly unknown;
Thes
(
dub.
) sub
מָרַד
rebel
(of which Hebr. may have thought [
cf.
Lag
BN 105]); in fact prob.
Bab.
name;
1.
=
a god e.g. Marduk,
We
Comp. Hex
. (2), 308
f.; Nimrod,
Ency. Brit.
(9), xvii. 511
,
RS
Sem i. 91 n.; 2d ed. 92
;
Hom
PSBA xv (1893), 291300
proposes
Narûdu
=
Namra-uddu
, a star-god.
2.
<
name of
Bab.
king or prince:
Nu-marad
=
Man of Marad
cf.
Dl
Pa 220 De
Gn 10:8
[1887]; more plausibly
=
Nazi-maraddash
(
marattash, murudas
),
Hpt
Andover Rev. July, 1884, 93 f.
Dl
K (1884) Say
Athen. Feb. 16, 1895, Acad. Mar. 2, 1895
(
cf.
Che
ib. Mar. 9
),i.e. a Kashite
kg.
,
B
.
C
. 1378, but
dub.
,
cf.
Hpt
BAS i (1889),
183, Jeremias
Izdubar-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
.),
נִמְרֹוד
1 Ch 1:1
0;
אֶרֶץ נִמְרֹד
Mi 5:5
(
||
אֶרֶץ אַשּׁוּר
);
Ö
Νεβρωδ
.
)
נִמְשִׁי S 5250 GK 5811 n.pr.m. grandfather of Jehu 2 K 9:2 , 14 ; יֵהוּא בֶן־נ׳ 1 K 19:16 2 K 9:20 2 Ch 22: 7; Ö Ναµεσθει, Ναµες(ς)ει .
נֵס
S
3071, 5251
TWOT
1379a
GK
5812
v.
II.
נסס
.
נְסִבָּה S 5252 TWOT 1456a GK 5813 v. סבב .
נְסָה v. נשׁא .
Lag P. de Lagarde, Onomastica Sacra . Bab. Babylonian.
We J. Wellhousen, Composition des Hexateuches ;
Hex Hexatuch.
Ency. Brit. Encyclopaedia Britanica, 9 th ed. RS W. Robertson Smith, Religion of Semites. Hom F. Hommel.
Dl Friedrich Delitzsch, Wo lag das Paradies? Dl Freidrich Delitzsch, Sprache d. Kossäer; Say A. H. Sayce.