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NAHUM (Hebrew for " rich in comfort [is God] ")

This article appears in Volume V19, Page 153 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MOS-NAN
NAHUM (Hebrew for " rich in comfort [is God] ") , an Old Testament
prophet
 . The name occurs only in the
book
  of Nahum; in
Nehemiah
  vii. 7 it is a scribal error for " Rehum." Of the
prophet
  himself all that is known is the statement of the
title
  that he was an Elkoshite. But the locality denoted by the designation is quite uncertain. Later tradition associated Nahum with the region of Nineveh, against which he prophesied, and hence his
tomb
  has been located at a
place
  bearing the name of Alkush near Mosul (anc. Nineveh) and is still shown.' According to Jerome, the prophet was a native of a
village
  in Galilee, which bore the name of Elkesi in the 4th
century
  A.D. (the Galilean town of Capernaum, which probably means "
village
  of Nahum," may also point in the same direction; but cf. John vii. 29, which seems to imply that in the time of Christ no prophet was supposed to have come out of Galilee). E. Nestle has proposed to locate Elkesi " beyond Betogabra " (i.e. Eleutheropolis, mod.
Beit
  Jibrin) in the tribe of Simeon (cf. Pal. Expl. Fund Quart. Statement, 1879, pp. 136-138).


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