Book of Nahum, the Glossary
The Book of Nahum is the seventh book of the 12 minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible.[1]
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63 relations: Ahaz, Aleppo Codex, Alqosh, Ancient Egypt, Aqueduct (water supply), Ashurbanipal, Assyria, Babylon, Biblia Hebraica (Kittel), Biblical Hebrew, Book of Habakkuk, Book of Micah, Book of Nahum, Book of Tobit, Book of Zephaniah, Books of Kings, Capernaum, Christianity, Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Cairensis, Codex Marchalianus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, Cyaxares, Dead Sea Scrolls, Deuterocanonical books, Enūma Eliš, Epic of Gilgamesh, Esarhaddon, Galilee, Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever, Hebrew Bible, Hezekiah, Jerusalem, Jerusalem Bible, Jonah, Josephus, Josiah, Jotham, Judaism, Kingdom of Judah, Koine Greek, Leningrad Codex, Masoretic Text, Medes, Metaphor, Nabopolassar, Nahum, Nahum Commentary, Necho II, ... Expand index (13 more) »
- 7th-century BC books
- Twelve Minor Prophets
Ahaz
Ahaz (Ἄχαζ, Ἀχάζ Akhaz; Achaz) an abbreviation of Jehoahaz II (of Judah), "Yahweh has held" (𒅀𒌑𒄩𒍣 Ya'úḫazi)Hayim Tadmor and Shigeo Yamada, The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744-727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726-722 BC), Kings of Assyria.
Aleppo Codex
The Aleppo Codex (כֶּתֶר אֲרָם צוֹבָא, romanized:, lit. 'Crown of Aleppo') is a medieval bound manuscript of the Hebrew Bible.
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Alqosh
Alqosh (ܐܲܠܩܘܿܫ, אלקוש, ألقوش, alternatively spelled Alkosh, Alqoš, or Alqush) is a town in the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq, a sub-district of the Tel Kaif District situated 45 km north of the city of Mosul.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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Aqueduct (water supply)
An aqueduct is a watercourse constructed to carry water from a source to a distribution point far away.
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Ashurbanipal
Ashurbanipal (𒀸𒋩𒆕𒀀|translit.
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Assyria
Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.
Babylon
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad.
Biblia Hebraica (Kittel)
Biblia Hebraica refers primarily to the three editions of the Hebrew Bible edited by Rudolf Kittel.
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Biblical Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew (rtl ʿīḇrîṯ miqrāʾîṯ or rtl ləšôn ham-miqrāʾ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the Mediterranean Sea.
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Book of Habakkuk
The Book of Habakkuk is the eighth book of the 12 minor prophets of the Bible. Book of Nahum and book of Habakkuk are 7th-century BC books and twelve Minor Prophets.
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Book of Micah
The Book of Micah is the sixth of the twelve minor prophets in the Hebrew Bible. Book of Nahum and Book of Micah are twelve Minor Prophets.
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Book of Nahum
The Book of Nahum is the seventh book of the 12 minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible. Book of Nahum and book of Nahum are 7th-century BC books and twelve Minor Prophets.
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Book of Tobit
The Book of Tobit is an apocryphal Jewish work from the 3rd or early 2nd century BCE which describes how God tests the faithful, responds to prayers, and protects the covenant community (i.e., the Israelites).
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Book of Zephaniah
The Book of Zephaniah (צְפַנְיָה, Ṣəfanyā; sometimes Latinized as Sophonias) is the ninth of the Twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament and Tanakh, preceded by the Book of Habakkuk and followed by the Book of Haggai. Book of Nahum and Book of Zephaniah are 7th-century BC books and twelve Minor Prophets.
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Books of Kings
The Book of Kings (Sēfer Məlāḵīm) is a book in the Hebrew Bible, found as two books (1–2 Kings) in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Book of Nahum and books of Kings are 7th-century BC books.
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Capernaum
Capernaum (Nahum's village; Kafr Nāḥūm) was a fishing village established during the time of the Hasmoneans, located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Codex Alexandrinus
The Codex Alexandrinus (London, British Library, Royal MS 1. D. V-VIII), designated by the siglum A or 02 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 4 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a manuscript of the Greek Bible,The Greek Bible in this context refers to the Bible used by Greek-speaking Christians who lived in Egypt and elsewhere during the early history of Christianity.
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Codex Cairensis
The Codex Cairensis (also: Codex Prophetarum Cairensis, Cairo Codex of the Prophets) is a Hebrew manuscript containing the complete text of the Hebrew Bible's Nevi'im (Prophets).
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Codex Marchalianus
Codex Marchalianus, designated by siglum Q, is a 6th-century Greek manuscript copy of the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh or Old Testament) known as the Septuagint.
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Codex Sinaiticus
The Codex Sinaiticus (Shelfmark: London, British Library, Add MS 43725), designated by siglum [Aleph] or 01 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 2 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), also called Sinai Bible, is a fourth-century Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old Testament, including the deuterocanonical books, and the Greek New Testament, with both the Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas included.
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Codex Vaticanus
The Codex Vaticanus (The Vatican, Bibl. Vat., Vat. gr. 1209), designated by siglum B or 03 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts), δ 1 (in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts), is a Christian manuscript of a Greek Bible, containing the majority of the Greek Old Testament and the majority of the Greek New Testament.
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Cyaxares
Cyaxares was the third king of the Medes.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls, also called the Qumran Caves Scrolls, are a set of ancient Jewish manuscripts from the Second Temple period.
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Deuterocanonical books
The deuterocanonical books, meaning "Of, pertaining to, or constituting a second canon," collectively known as the Deuterocanon (DC), are certain books and passages considered to be canonical books of the Old Testament by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church of the East, but which modern Jews and many Protestants regard as Apocrypha.
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Enūma Eliš
(Akkadian Cuneiform:, also spelled "Enuma Elish"), meaning "When on High", is a Babylonian creation myth (named after its opening words) from the late 2nd millennium BCE and the only complete surviving account of ancient near eastern cosmology.
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Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic from ancient Mesopotamia.
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Esarhaddon
Esarhaddon, also spelled Essarhaddon, Assarhaddon and Ashurhaddon (𒀭𒊹𒉽𒀸, also 𒀭𒊹𒉽𒋧𒈾, meaning "Ashur has given me a brother"; Biblical Hebrew: ʾĒsar-Ḥaddōn) was the king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from the death of his father Sennacherib in 681 BC to his own death in 669.
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Galilee
Galilee (hagGālīl; Galilaea; al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon.
The Greek Minor Prophets Scroll from Nahal Hever (8HevXII gr) is a Greek manuscript of a revision of the Septuagint dated to the 1st century BC and the 1st century CE.
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Hebrew Bible
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.
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Hezekiah
Hezekiah (חִזְקִיָּהוּ|Ḥizqiyyāhū), or Ezekias (born, sole ruler), was the son of Ahaz and the 13th king of Judah according to the Hebrew Bible.
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.
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Jerusalem Bible
The Jerusalem Bible (JB or TJB) is an English translation of the Bible published in 1966 by Darton, Longman & Todd.
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Jonah
Jonah or Jonas is a Jewish prophet in the Hebrew Bible hailing from Gath-hepher in the Northern Kingdom of Israel around the 8th century BCE.
Josephus
Flavius Josephus (Ἰώσηπος,; AD 37 – 100) was a Roman–Jewish historian and military leader.
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Josiah
Josiah or Yoshiyahu was the 16th King of Judah (–609 BCE).
Jotham
Jotham or Yotam (Ioatham; Joatham) was the eleventh king of Judah, and son of Uzziah and Jerusha, daughter of Zadok.
Judaism
Judaism (יַהֲדוּת|translit.
Kingdom of Judah
The Kingdom of Judah was an Israelite kingdom of the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.
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Koine Greek
Koine Greek (Koine the common dialect), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek, Septuagint Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-regional form of Greek spoken and written during the Hellenistic period, the Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire.
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Leningrad Codex
The Leningrad Codex (Codex Leningradensis [Leningrad Book; כתב יד לנינגרד.) is the oldest known complete manuscript of the Hebrew Bible in Hebrew, using the Masoretic Text and Tiberian vocalization.
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Masoretic Text
The Masoretic Text (MT or 𝕸; Nūssāḥ hamMāsōrā, lit. 'Text of the Tradition') is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in Rabbinic Judaism.
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Medes
The Medes (Old Persian: 𐎶𐎠𐎭; Akkadian: 13px, 13px; Ancient Greek: Μῆδοι; Latin: Medi) were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, they occupied the mountainous region of northwestern Iran and the northeastern and eastern region of Mesopotamia in the vicinity of Ecbatana (present-day Hamadan).
A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.
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Nabopolassar
Nabopolassar (𒀭𒉺𒀀𒉽|translit.
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Nahum
Nahum (or; נַחוּם Naḥūm) was a minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Tanakh, also called the Hebrew Bible and The Old Testament.
The Nahum Commentary or Pesher Nahum, labelled 4QpNah (Cave 4, Qumran, pesher, Nahum) or 4Q169, was among the Dead Sea Scrolls in cave 4 of Qumran that was discovered in August 1952.
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Necho II
Necho II (sometimes Nekau, Neku, Nechoh, or Nikuu; Greek: Νεκώς Β') of Egypt was a king of the 26th Dynasty (610–595 BC), which ruled from Sais.
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New King James Version
The New King James Version (NKJV) is a translation of the Bible in contemporary English.
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Nineveh
Nineveh (𒌷𒉌𒉡𒀀, URUNI.NU.A, Ninua; נִינְוֵה, Nīnəwē; نَيْنَوَىٰ, Naynawā; ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē), also known in early modern times as Kouyunjik, was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq.
Old Testament
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites.
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Pharaoh
Pharaoh (Egyptian: pr ꜥꜣ; ⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ|Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: Parʿō) is the vernacular term often used for the monarchs of ancient Egypt, who ruled from the First Dynasty until the annexation of Egypt by the Roman Republic in 30 BCE.
Rashi
Shlomo Yitzchaki (רבי שלמה יצחקי; Salomon Isaacides; Salomon de Troyes; 13 July 1105), commonly known by the acronym Rashi, was a French rabbi who authored comprehensive commentaries on the Talmud and Hebrew Bible.
Revelation 17
Revelation 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse to John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
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Sack of Thebes
The sack of Thebes took place in 663 BC in the city of Thebes at the hands of the Neo-Assyrian Empire under king Ashurbanipal, then at war with the Kushite Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt under Tantamani, during the Assyrian conquest of Egypt.
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Sennacherib
Sennacherib (𒀭𒌍𒉽𒈨𒌍𒋢|translit.
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Septuagint
The Septuagint, sometimes referred to as the Greek Old Testament or The Translation of the Seventy (Hē metáphrasis tôn Hebdomḗkonta), and often abbreviated as LXX, is the earliest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible from the original Hebrew.
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Thebes, Egypt
Thebes (طيبة, Θῆβαι, Thēbai), known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset (Arabic: وسط), was an ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile about south of the Mediterranean.
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Twelve Minor Prophets
The Minor Prophets or Twelve Prophets (שנים עשר, Shneim Asar; תרי עשר, Trei Asar, "Twelve") (δωδεκαπρόφητον., "the Twelve Prophets"), occasionally Book of the Twelve, is a collection of prophetic books, written between about the 8th and 4th centuries BCE, which are in both the Jewish Tanakh and Christian Old Testament.
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Wadi Murabba'at
Wadi Murabba'at, also known as Nahal Darga, is a ravine cut by a seasonal stream which runs from the Judean Desert east of Bethlehem past the Herodium down to the Dead Sea 18 km south of Khirbet Qumran in the West Bank.
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Zephaniah
Zephaniah is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible; the most prominent being the prophet who prophesied in the days of Josiah, king of Judah (640–609 BCE) and is attributed a book bearing his name among the Twelve Minor Prophets.
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See also
7th-century BC books
- Aethiopis
- Book of Deuteronomy
- Book of Habakkuk
- Book of Joel
- Book of Joshua
- Book of Judges
- Book of Leviticus
- Book of Nahum
- Book of Zephaniah
- Books of Kings
- Books of Samuel
- Catalogue of Women
- Cypria
- Homeric Hymns
- Iliupersis
- Little Iliad
- Nostoi
- Psalms
- Theban Cycle
- Titanomachy (epic poem)
- Works and Days
Twelve Minor Prophets
- Book of Amos
- Book of Habakkuk
- Book of Haggai
- Book of Hosea
- Book of Joel
- Book of Jonah
- Book of Malachi
- Book of Micah
- Book of Nahum
- Book of Obadiah
- Book of Zechariah
- Book of Zephaniah
- Twelve Minor Prophets
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Nahum
Also known as Nah., Nahum 1, Nahum 1:1, Nahum 1:17, Nahum 1:7, Nahum 2, Nahum 3, Nahum 3:19, Nahum 3:8, Nahum, Book of, The Book of Nahum.
, New King James Version, Nineveh, Old Testament, Pharaoh, Rashi, Revelation 17, Sack of Thebes, Sennacherib, Septuagint, Thebes, Egypt, Twelve Minor Prophets, Wadi Murabba'at, Zephaniah.