נחום

Hebrew

Root
נ־ח־ם (n-kh-m)

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

נַחוּם • (nakhum) m

1. Nahum (a book of the Tanakh / the Old Testament of the Bible)
2. (biblical) Nahum (the minor prophet who wrote that book)
3. a male given name, equivalent to English Nahum
4. a surname

References

• H5151 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

Further reading

• נחום on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

Yiddish

Etymology

From Hebrew נַחוּם (nakhum).

Proper noun

נחום • (nokhem) m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Nahum