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Nahum   /nˈæhəm/   Listen
Nahum

noun
1.
A Hebrew minor prophet of the 7th century BC.
2.
An Old Testament book telling Nahum's prophecy of the fall of Nineveh.  Synonym: Book of Nahum.



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... TATE, NAHUM, poet-laureate, born in Dublin, where he was educated at Trinity College; came to London to ply the craft of letters, and in 1690 succeeded Shadwell in the laureateship; improvident, and probably intemperate, he died in the Mint, the refuge of bankrupts in those days; wrote some dramatic ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... God. He is perfectly good, pure and holy (Psalm 25:8; Nahum 1:7; Romans 2:4). Man may have perfect confidence, however matters may seem to him to go wrong with his imperfect vision of the world and the happenings in it, that there is a good God who governs all in the interest ...
— Studies in the Life of the Christian • Henry T. Sell
... run to and fro, and knowledge should be increased. Then men bound the elements to their chariots, and reaching up laid hold upon the very lightning and made it their message-bearer around the world. Nahum foretold that at a certain time the chariots should be with flaming torches and run like the lightnings. Who can behold in the darkness of the night, the locomotive dashing over its iron track, the fiery glare of its ...
— The United States in the Light of Prophecy • Uriah Smith
... All's still as death within; The sheriff eyes the jailer, The jailer strokes his chin. "I shouldn't wonder, Nahum, if It were as you suppose." The hangman looked unhappy, and ...
— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun
... four parasangs to Capernaum, which is the village of Nahum, identical with Maon, the home of ...
— The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela • Benjamin of Tudela


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