nahum

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Definition von nahum im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

A book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and of the Tanakh

Its author, a minor prophet

A male given name of biblical origin

flourished late 7th century BC One of the 12 Minor Prophets in the Bible, traditional author of the book of Nahum. (His prophecy is part of a larger book, The Twelve, in the Jewish canon.) The prophet Nahum is identified only as a resident of Elkosh. His subject is the collapse of the Assyrian empire and the fall of its capital, Nineveh (612 BC), which he views as a demonstration of God's desire to punish the wickedness of the Assyrians, Israel's longtime enemies

{i} prophet of the seventh century who predicted the fall of Nineveh (Biblical); seventh book of the Minor Prophets (Biblical); male first name (Hebrew)

a Hebrew minor prophet of the 7th century BC

One of the Twelve Prophets; a late seventh century Judean prophet who announced the coming destruction of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian empire See Chapter 13

an Old Testament book telling Nahum's prophecy of the fall of Nineveh

an Old Testament book telling Nahum's prophecy of the fall of Nineveh a Hebrew minor prophet of the 7th century BC

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A prophet from Elkosh (Nah 1: 1) who delivered poems rejoicing in Nineveh's fall and the destruction of the Assyrian Empire (612 b c e )

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Nahum Goldman

public figure, president of the Zionist Organization, planner of the Diaspora Museum

Nahum Tate

born 1652, Dublin, Ire. died July 30, 1715, London, Eng. Irish-English poet and playwright. After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, Tate moved to London. Though he wrote plays of his own, he is best known for his adaptations of Elizabethan works, notably William Shakespeare's King Lear, with a happy ending, which was performed well into the 19th century. He wrote the libretto for Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (1689?) and collaborated with Nicholas Brady in A New Version of the Psalms of David (1696). The best of his own poems is "Panacea: A Poem upon Tea" (1700). He became England's poet laureate in 1692

Silbentrennung

Na·hum

Türkische aussprache

nähım

Aussprache

/ˈnahəm/ /ˈnæhəm/

Etymologie

() Hebrew נַחוּם (nakhum, “consolation”).