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Strong's #5210: Niynveh (pronounced nee-nev-ay')

of foreign origin; Nineveh, the capital of Assyria:--Nineveh.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nı̂ynevêh

Nineveh = "abode of Ninus"

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

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: of foreign origin



Usage:

This word is used 17 times:

Genesis 10:11: "Asshur, and built 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: "and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh."
Isaiah 37:37: "and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh."
Jonah 1:2: "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against"
Jonah 3:2: "Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto"
Jonah 3:3: "arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was"
Jonah 3:3: "Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city"
Jonah 3:4: "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown."
Jonah 3:5: "So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth,"
Jonah 3:6: "came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid"
Jonah 3:7: "And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying,"
Jonah 4:11: "And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein"
Nahum 1:1: "The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite."
Nahum 2:8: " But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand,"
Nahum 3:7: "thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence"
Zephaniah 2:13: "Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness."









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