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# נִינְוֵה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5210

**Nineveh** — used 17 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Nineveh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5210/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נִינְוֵה: n.pr.loc. Nineveh [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5210/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Nineveh, capital of Assyria (Assyrian Ninâ, Ninua, Ninû, cf. Schr COT Gloss. DlPar260);—Gn 10:11, 12 (J), 2 K 19:36 = Is 37:37, Na 1:1; 2:9; 3:7; Zp 2:13 Jon 1:2; 3:3a, 4, 5, 6, 7, called הָעִיר הַגְּדוֹלָה v 3b; 4:11 (cf. 3:4f.); 𝔊 Νινευη, 𝔊L Νινευι. Site on E. bank of Tigris marked by mounds Neby Yunus and Kuyundjik, opposite Mosul. Cf. Layard Nineveh and its Remains, 1848; Monuments of N. 1849 f. Billerbeck u. Jeremias BAS iii. 1 (1895), 107 ff.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 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)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Nineveh (14); of Nineveh (3).

## In the verses

[Nahum 1:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.1/#tree)

מַשָּׂ֖א נִֽינְוֵ֑ה סֵ֧פֶר חֲז֛וֹן נַח֖וּם הָאֶלְקֹשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* the.oracle of.Nineveh the.document of.the.vision of.Nahum the Elkoshite

*JPS 1917:* THE BURDEN of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

[Genesis 10:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.10.12/#tree)

וְֽאֶת־רֶ֔סֶן בֵּ֥ין נִֽינְוֵ֖ה וּבֵ֣ין כָּ֑לַח הִ֖וא הָעִ֥יר הַגְּדֹלָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Resen between Nineveh and between Calah that \[is\].the city (the) great

*JPS 1917:* and Resen between Nineveh and Calah — the same is the great city.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5210.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5210/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).