Bible Names

Nimrod: meaning of the name

Nimrod means “rebellion (but probably an unknown Assyrian word).”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Nimrod in Hebrew and Greek

נִמְרוֹד H5248

Nimrôwd (nim-rode') — Nimrod, a son of Cush

or נִמְרֹד; probably of foreign origin;

Who named Nimrod in the Bible

Places named Nimrod

Nimrod in Scripture

“Nimrod” appears in 4 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 10:8

    And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

  • Genesis 10:9

    He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:10

    And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be mighty upon the earth.

  • Micah 5:6

    And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.