BDB5225
נִמְרֹד, נִמְרוֺד proper name, masculine Nimrod (etymology and meaning wholly unknown; Thes (dubious) below מָרַד rebel (of which Hebr. may have thought [compare LagBN 105]); in fact probably Babylonian name;
1. = a god e.g. Marduk, Wecompare Hexateuch (2), 308 f.; Nimrod,
Encycl. Brit. (9). xvii. 511, RSSemitic i. 91 n
.; 2d ed. 92; HomPSBA xv (1893), 291-300 proposes
Narûdu = *Namra-uddu, a star-god.
2. < name of Babylonian king or prince:
Nu-marad
= 'Man of Marad' compare DlPa 220
De
Gen 10:8
[1887]; more plausibly =
Nazi-maraddash
(
marattash, murudas
), HptAR July, 1884, 93 f.
DlK (1884)
SayAth. Feb. 16, 1895, Acad. Mar. 2, 1895 (compare Cheib. Mar. 9), — i.e. a Kashite king, B.C. 1378, but dubious,
compare HptBAS i (1889), 183,
JeremIzdubar-Nimrod, 1891, 1 ff.); — son of
כּוּשׁ
(q. v.), hero and hunter Gen 10:8; Gen 10:9 (
J
; king in Babylonia, builder of Nineveh, etc. Gen 10:10f.), נִמְרוֺד
1Chr 1:10
אֶרֶץ נִמְרֹד
Mic 5:5 (||
אֶרֶץ אַשּׁוּר);
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Νεβρωδ.