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Bible Lexicons

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Strong's #5151 - נַחוּם

Transliteration

Nachûwm

Phonetics

nakh-oom'

Origin

from (H5162)

Parts of Speech

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs'

Nahum = “comfort”

1) the Elkoshite, prophet who predicted the fall and destruction of Nineveh; writer of the book by his name; personal history and situation unknown

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

KJV (1)

Nahum 1

NAS (1)

Nahum 1

HCS (1)

Nahum 1

BSB (1)

Nahum 1

ESV (1)

Nahum 1

WEB (1)

Nahum 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

נַחוּם proper name, masculine ( comfort) the prophet Nahum , Nahum 1:1, ᵐ5 Ναουμ. **נַחוּם < = comforting, full of comfort (namely, is ׳י ? compare ARSK^{DB NAHUM} Dr^{Nahum 1:1, Century Bible}).

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

נַחוּם (“comfort,” “consolation”), [Nahum], pr.n. of a prophet, Nahum 1:1.

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List of Word Forms

נַח֖וּם נחום na·ḥūm naChum naḥūm