נִינְוֵה
ninve · Nineveh
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5210 · appears 17 times in the Bible
What is the Strong number?
Strong’s number identifies this word: use it to find the same word in other study tools.What it means
ninve (נִינְוֵה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Nineveh”.
A great city on the Tigris, later the capital of Assyria.
How to say it
nin·ve
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
The place
Nineveh
Today: Nineveh ruins, beside Mosul, Iraq
An Assyrian city on the Tigris River in northern Iraq today, across from present-day Mosul.
Jonah preached there, and the city turned from its evil way (Jonah 3:3-10). Nahum later announced its fall (Nah 1:1).
Where it appears
- Genesis 10:11
From that land he went out to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
- Genesis 10:12
and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
- 2 Kings 19:36
Sennacherib king of Assyria set out and went and returned, and lived in Nineveh.
- Isaiah 37:37
Sennacherib king of Assyria set out and went and returned, and lived in Nineveh.
- Jonah 1:2
“Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and cry out against it, for their evil has come up before me.”
- Jonah 3:2
“Arise, go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the proclamation that I am telling you.”
- Jonah 3:3
So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of YHWH. Now Nineveh was a great city for Elohim, a journey of three days.
- Jonah 3:4
And Jonah began to go into the city, a journey of one day, and he proclaimed and said, “Forty more days, and Nineveh will be overturned.”
- Jonah 3:5
And the men of Nineveh believed Elohim, and they proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
- Jonah 3:6
And the word reached the king of Nineveh, and he rose from his throne, took off his robe from himself, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat on the ashes.
- Jonah 3:7
And he had it proclaimed and said in Nineveh, by decree of the king and his great men, saying, “Human being and livestock, herd and flock, are not to taste anything; they are not to graze, and water they are not to drink.
- Jonah 4:11
And I, should I not have pity on Nineveh, the great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand human beings who do not know how to tell between their right hand and their left, and much livestock?”
- Nahum 1:1
The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
- Nahum 2:8
And Nineveh has been like a pool of water from her days, and they are fleeing. “Stop, stop,” but there is no one who turns back.
- Nahum 3:7
And it will happen that all who see you will flee from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ From where shall I seek comforters for you?”
- Zephaniah 2:13
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria, and he will make Nineveh a desolation, dry as the wilderness.
And 1 more times.