Strong’s H5248 · Hebrew
נִמְרוֹד
Nimrôwd · nim-rode'
Origin or נִמְרֹד; probably of foreign origin;
Meaning Nimrod, a son of Cush
In the King James Version Nimrod.
In 4 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 10:8And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
- Genesis 10:9He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.
- 1 Chronicles 1:10And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.
- Micah 5:6And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.