wholesome water Lane ²⁸⁵³, also We ^l.c.) ;—only מֵי נִמְרִים Is 15:6 Je 48:3 4; prob. = Βηνναµαρειµ Lag ^{Onom. 284, 33}, in Wady Numêre at SE. end of Dead Sea, Buhl ^{Geogr. 272}.

• נִמְרֹד S 5248 GK 5808 , נִמְרֹוד n.pr.m. Nimrod ( etym. and meaning wholly unknown; Thes ( dub. ) sub מָרַד rebel (of which Hebr. may have thought [ cf. Lag ^{BN 105}]); in fact prob. Bab. name; 1. = a god e.g. Marduk, We ^Comp. Hex . (2), 308
f.; Nimrod, Ency. Brit. (9), xvii. 511 , RS ^Sem i. 91 n.; 2d ed. 92 ; Hom PSBA xv (1893), 291–300 proposes Narûdu = Namra-uddu , a star-god. 2. < name of Bab. king or prince: Nu-marad = ‘Man of Marad’ cf. Dl ^{Pa 220} De Gn 10:8 [1887]; more plausibly = Nazi-maraddash ( marattash, murudas ), Hpt Andover Rev. July, 1884, 93 f. Dl ^{K (1884)} Say Athen. Feb. 16, 1895, Acad. Mar. 2, 1895 ( cf. Che ib. Mar. 9 ),—i.e. a Kashite kg. , B . C . 1378, but dub. , cf. Hpt ^BAS i (1889), ¹⁸³, Jeremias Izdubar-Nimrod, 1891, 1 ff. ;—son of כּוּשׁ ( q.v. ), hero and hunter Gn 10:8 ,
9 ( J ; kg. in Babylonia, builder of Nineveh, etc. v 10 f .), נִמְרֹוד 1 Ch 1:1 0; אֶרֶץ נִמְרֹד Mi 5:5 ( || אֶרֶץ אַשּׁוּר ); Ö Νεβρωδ . )

• נִמְשִׁי S 5250 GK 5811 n.pr.m. grandfather of Jehu 2 K 9:2 , 14 ; יֵהוּא בֶן־נ׳ 1 K 19:16 2 K 9:20 2 Ch 22: 7; Ö Ναµεσθει, Ναµες(ς)ει .

נֵס S 3071, 5251 TWOT 1379a GK 5812 v. II. נסס ^.

נְסִבָּה S 5252 TWOT 1456a GK 5813 v. סבב ^.

נְסָה v. נשׁא ^.

Lag P. de Lagarde, Onomastica Sacra . Bab. Babylonian.

We J. Wellhousen, Composition des Hexateuches ;

Hex Hexatuch.

Ency. Brit. Encyclopaedia Britanica, 9 ^th ed. RS W. Robertson Smith, Religion of Semites. Hom F. Hommel.

Dl Friedrich Delitzsch, Wo lag das Paradies? Dl Freidrich Delitzsch, Sprache d. Kossäer; Say A. H. Sayce.