נִמְרֹד
Used: 4 times · Key: 5248 · BDB: נִמְרֹד
Glosses
Nimrod (3); of.Nimrod (1)
Meaning (OSHB)
Nimrod tree →
Meaning (BDB 1906)
n.pr.m. Nimrod tree →
The whole BDB entry
n.pr.m. Nimrod (etym. and meaning wholly unknown; Thes (dub.) sub מָרַד rebel (of which Hebr. may have thought [cf. LagBN 105]); in fact prob. Bab. name; 1. = a god e.g. Marduk, WeComp. Hex. (2), 308 f.; Nimrod, Encycl. Brit. (9), xvii. 511, RSSem. i. 91 n.; 2d ed. 92; HomPSBA xv (1893), 291–300 proposes Narûdu = Namra-uddu, a star-god. 2. Nu-marad = ‘Man of Marad’ cf. DlPa 220 De Gn 10:8 [1887]; more plausibly = Nazi-maraddash, HptAndover Rev. July, 1884, 93 f. DlK (1884) SayAthen. Feb. 16, 1895, Acad. Mar. 2, 1895 (cf. Cheib. Mar. 9),—i.e. a Kashite kg., b. c. 1378, but dub., cf. HptBAS i (1889), 183, JeremiasIzdubar-Nimrod, 1891, 1 ff.;—son of כּוּשׁ (q.v.), hero and hunter Gn 10:8, 9 (J; kg. in Babylonia, builder of Nineveh, etc. v 10 f.), נִמְרוֹד 1 Ch 1:10; אֶרֶץ נִמְרֹד Mi 5:5 (‖ אֶרֶץ אַשּׁוּר); 𝔊 Νεβρωδ.)
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)
Trees and pragmatics
Every English meaning of «נִמְרֹד» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.
In the verses
וְכ֖וּשׁ יָלַ֣ד אֶת־נִמְרֹ֑ד ה֣וּא הֵחֵ֔ל לִֽהְי֥וֹת גִּבֹּ֖ר בָּאָֽרֶץ׃
Word for word: and Cush he.fathered (et) Nimrod he he.began to be a.mighty.[man] on the earth
JPS 1917: And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
וְכ֖וּשׁ יָלַ֣ד אֶת־נִמְר֑וֹד ה֣וּא הֵחֵ֔ל לִהְי֥וֹת גִּבּ֖וֹר בָּאָֽרֶץ׃ס
Word for word: and Cush he.fathered (et) Nimrod he he.began to be a.mighty.[man] on the earth
JPS 1917: And Cush begot Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
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