Person

Nahum

Nachum

נַחוּם

Comfort.

Nahum’s oracle is the burden of Nineveh: comfort for Judah, ruin for Assyria.

Strong’s

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נַחוּם H5151

Nachûwm · nakh-oom'

Nachum, an Israelite prophet

from H5162 (נָחַם); comfortable;

KJV glosses: Nahum.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.

נַחוּם H5151

Biblical Hebrew

נַחוּם proper name, masculine (comfort) the prophet Nahum, Nah 1:1, ᵐ5 Ναουμ. **נַחוּם < = comforting, full of comfort (namely, is ׳י ? compare ARSKDB NAHUM DrNah 1:1, Century Bible).