Bible Names

Nineveh: meaning of the name

Nineveh means “handsome; agreeable.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Nineveh in Hebrew and Greek

נִינְוֵה H5210

Nîynᵉvêh (nee-nev-ay') — Nineveh, the capital of Assyria

of foreign origin;

Places named Nineveh

Nineveh in Scripture

“Nineveh” appears in 17 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 10:11

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

  • Genesis 10:12

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

  • 2 Kings 19:36

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

  • Isaiah 37:37

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

  • Jonah 1:2

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

  • Jonah 3:2

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

  • 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.

  • 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.