Nimrod

Meaning: firm

a descendant of Cush, the son of Ham

He was the first who claimed to be a "mighty one in the earth." Babel was the beginning of his kingdom, which he gradually enlarged (Gen. 10:8-10). The "land of Nimrod" (Micah 5:6) is a designation of Assyria or of Shinar, which is a part of it.

See:

• Tower of Babel
• Is there archaeological evidence of the Tower of Babel?
• Is there any reference to the confusion of languages at Babel in early Mesopotamian literature?
• Dispersion
• Peleg
• Babylon
• City
• Chaldea
• The land of Shinar
• Read a summary of the story of the Tower of Babel (God's Story)
• Read the Biblical record
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