Nahum the prophet biography samples

Minor prophet in the Bible

This article is about Nahum, a biblical prophet. For other uses, see Nahum (disambiguation).

Nahum ( or ; Hebrew: נַחוּםNaḥūm) was a minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Tanakh, also called the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament.

His book comes in chronological order between Micah and Habakkuk in the Bible.^[1] He wrote about the end of the Assyrian Empire, and its capital city, Nineveh, in a vivid poetic style.^[2]

Life

Little is known about Nahum's personal history.

His name means "comfort",^[3] and is derived from the same root as the Hebrew verb meaning "to comfort".^[4] He came from the town of Alqosh (Nahum 1:1), which scholars have attempted to identify with several cities, including the modern Alqosh in northern Iraq and Capernaum of northern Galilee.^[5] He was a very nationalistic Hebrew, however, and lived amongst the Elkoshites in peace.

Nahum, called "the Elkoshite"