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Nahum definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a Hebrew minor prophet of the 7th century BC
2: an Old Testament book telling Nahum's prophecy of the fall of Nineveh [syn: Nahum, Book of Nahum]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Hebrew Na??m 1. a Hebrew prophet of the seventh century B.C. 2. a prophetic book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture — see bible table

Hitchcock Bible Dictionary

comforter; penitent

Easton's Bible Dictionary

consolation, the seventh of the so-called minor prophets, an Elkoshite. All we know of him is recorded in the book of his prophecies. He was probably a native of Galilee, and after the deportation of the ten tribes took up his residence in Jerusalem. Others think that Elkosh was the name of a place on the east bank of the Tigris, and that Nahum dwelt there.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

na'-hum (Naoum; the King James Version Naum): An ancestor of Jesus in Luke's genealogy, the 9th before Joseph, the husband of Mary (Lu 3:25).