H5210

נינוה

nayanawah

Proper locative noun · Of foreign origin

Of foreign origin; Nineveh, the capital of Assyria:—Nineveh.

Outline

Nineveh = "abode of Ninus"

capital of the ancient kingdom of Assyria; located on the east bank of the Tigris river, 550 miles (880 km) from its mouth and 250 miles (400 km) north of Babylon

Usages

Genesis 10:11

Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

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Genesis 10:12

And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

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2 Kings 19:36

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

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Isaiah 37:37

¶ So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

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Jonah 1:2

Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

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Jonah 3:2

Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

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Jonah 3:3

So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.

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Jonah 3:4

And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

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Jonah 3:5

¶ So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

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Jonah 3:6

For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

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Jonah 3:7

And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

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Jonah 4:11

And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

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Nahum 1:1

The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

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Nahum 2:8

But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

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Nahum 3:7

And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?

Breakdown

Modern day Nineveh is America

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Zephaniah 2:13

And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

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