Bible Lexicons

 נִמְרֹד, נִמְרוֺד proper name, masculine Nimrod (etymology and meaning wholly unknown; Thes (dubious) below מָרַד rebel (of which Hebr. may have thought [compare Lag ^{BN 105}]); in fact probably Babylonian name;

1 = a god e.g. Marduk, We ^{compare Hexateuch (2), 308f.; Nimrod, Encycl. Brit. (9). xvii. 511}, RS ^{Semitic i. 91 n}.; 2 d ed. 92; Hom ^{PSBA xv (1893), 291-300} proposes Narûdu = *Namra-uddu, a star-god.

2 < name of Babylonian king or prince: Numbers -marad = 'Man of Marad' compare Dl ^{Pa 220} De ^{Genesis 10:8} [1887]; more plausibly = Nazi-maraddash ( marattash, murudas), Hpt ^{AR July, 1884,93f.} Dl ^{K (1884)} Say ^{Ath. Feb. 16,1895, Acad. Mark 2,1895} (compare Che ^{ib. Mark 9}), — i.e. a Kashite king, B.C. 1378, but dubious, compare Hpt ^{BAS i (1889), 183}, Jerem ^{Izdubar-Nimrod, 1891,1ff.}); — son of כּוּשׁ (q. v.), hero and hunter Genesis 10:8,9 (J; king in Babylonia, builder of Nineveh, etc. Genesis 10:10f.), נִמְרוֺד 1 Chronicles 1:10; אֶרֶץ נִמְרֹד Micah 5:5 ("" אֶרֶץ אַשּׁוּר); ᵐ5 Νεβρωδ.