Nahum

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Nahum
       n 1: a Hebrew minor prophet of the 7th century BC
       2: an Old Testament book telling Nahum's prophecy of the fall
          of Nineveh [syn: {Book of Nahum}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Nahum
     consolation, the seventh of the so-called minor prophets, an
     Elkoshite. All we know of him is recorded in the book of his
     prophecies. He was probably a native of Galilee, and after the
     deportation of the ten tribes took up his residence in
     Jerusalem. Others think that Elkosh was the name of a place on
     the east bank of the Tigris, and that Nahum dwelt there.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Nahum, comforter; penitent