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Little is known about Nahum's personal history. His name means "comfort", [3] and is derived from the same root as the Hebrew verb meaning "to comfort". [4] He came from the town of Alqosh (Nahum 1:1), which scholars have attempted to identify with several cities, including the modern Alqosh in northern Iraq and Capernaum of northern Galilee. [5]
Capernaum (/ k ə ˈ p ɜːr n eɪ ə m,-n i ə m / kə-PUR-nay-əm, -nee-əm; [1] Hebrew: כְּפַר נַחוּם, romanized: Kfar Naḥum, lit. 'Nahum's village'; Arabic: كَفْرْ نَاحُومْ, romanized: Kafr Nāḥūm) was a fishing village established during the time of the Hasmoneans, located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee. [2]
The Book of Nahum is the seventh book of the 12 minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible. It is attributed to the prophet Nahum , and was probably written in Jerusalem in the 7th century BC. [ 1 ] Its principal theme is the destruction of the Assyrian city of Nineveh .
Noah is an English masculine given name derived from the Biblical figure Noah (נחַ) in Hebrew. It is most likely of Hebrew in origin from the root word "nuach”/“nuakh”, meaning rest. [1] Another explanation says that it is derived from the Hebrew root word Nahum meaning "to comfort" with the final consonant dropped. [2]
The two words "gam zu" ("גם זו", meaning "this too") were combined into the single-word nickname "Gamzu" ("גמזו"), with "Ish Gamzu" then meaning "The Gamzu Man". [ 1 ] Alternatively, Nathan ben Jehiel (in his Arukh ) describes Nachum's surname as being "Ish Gimzo", or "the man from Gimzo," based on the fact that there was a town named ...
LDS scholars have proposed a specific location for Nahom based on their interpretations of archaeological evidence. The mainstream view dismisses the evidence as coincidence, such as in the spelling similarity between Nahom and Old Testament book Nahum, and the interpretations as apologetically-motivated.
Nahum the Mede (Hebrew: נחום המדי, transliteration: Nahum HaMadi) was a first-century tanna of the first generation who came to the Land of Israel from Media.He lived in Jerusalem and according to Nathan the Babylonian, he was one of the three most renowned criminal judges in the city. [1]
Nahum Ma'arabi, Moroccan Hebrew poet and translator of the thirteenth century; Nahum Manbar (born 1946), Israeli businessman; Nahum Meir Schaikewitz (1849–1905), Yiddish and Hebrew novelist and playwright; Nahum Melvin-Lambert (born 2002), English footballer; Nahum Mitchell (1769–1853), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts