person
Nimrod
נִמְרֹד
Nimrod was a mighty hunter and ruler who built several notable cities, including Babel and Nineveh.
- verses
- 4
- first named
- Genesis 10:8
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 1:10
- period
- the Patriarchs
- tribe
- Early Patriarch
Description
Who was Nimrod?
Nimrod was a descendant of Cush, the son of Ham (Gen.10.8). He was described as a mighty hunter before the Lord, indicating his prowess and skill (Gen.10.9). Nimrod became a powerful ruler, establishing a kingdom that included the cities of Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in the land of Shinar (Gen.10.10). He also expanded his kingdom to Assyria, where he built the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah, and Resen (Gen.10.11-12). The land of Assyria is referred to as the land of Nimrod (Mic.5.6), further emphasizing his influence and power in the region.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
The 10 best-attested of 14 are drawn. All 14 are listed below.
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Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Nimrod is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
4 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (2), 1 Chronicles (1) and Micah (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 3 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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