Nahum
[ ney-huhm ]
/ ˈneɪ həm /
noun
a book of the Bible bearing his name. Abbreviation: Nah.
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Origin of Nahum
Ultimately from Hebrew Naḥūm “consolation”
Words nearby Nahum
nahcolite,
NAHT,
Nahua,
Nahuatl,
Nahuatlan,
Nahum,
NAI,
naiad,
NAIC,
Naida,
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How to use Nahum in a sentence
Nahum says this to justify the destruction of the city of Nineveh, which he argues is overrun by sin and vice, and must be cleansed.
In recent months, prestigious, mainstream Israelis like Yediot Ahronot columnist Nahum Barnea have predicted exactly this.
In recent months, prestigious, mainstream Israelis like Yediot Ahronot columnist Nahum Barnea have predicted exactly this.
And Nahum Segal, among others, encouraged the purchase of all Israeli products—in Green Line Israel and beyond.
Nurnberg, Rev. Nahum, was born in Russia, his father dying very early.
His mother and her children then went to live with her father, who was a strict Jew, and as such Nahum was brought up.
Nineveh, 'the bloody city,' fell, never to rise again and the doom pronounced by Nahum was fulfilled.
I never supposed that Nahum knew the least thing about railroads, or that Job would have known a telegraph if he had seen it.
My clerk Nahum lodges with them—I can never go into my reading-desk and have that fellow so near me.
British Dictionary definitions for Nahum
noun Old Testament
a Hebrew prophet of the 7th century bc
the book containing his oracles
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