Strong's #5248: Nimrowd (pronounced nim-rode')

or Nimrod {nim-rode'}; probably of foreign origin; Nimrod, a son of Cush:--Nimrod.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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nimrôd

Nimrod = "rebellion" or "the valiant"

1) the son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and great grandson of Noah; a mighty hunter, he established an empire in the area of Babylon and Assyria

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: probably of foreign origin

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

Genesis 10:8: "And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one"
Genesis 10:9: "the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before"
1 Chronicles 1:10: "And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be mighty"
Micah 5:6: "of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian,"