Nimrod

See also: Nimród and nimrod

English

A Nimrod (biplane fighter), 1936

A decommissioned Nimrod (patrol aircraft) and a pony

From Hebrew נִמְרוֹד‎ (Nimród).

Nimrod

(biblical) A grandson of Ham; a mighty hunter and king of Shinar.
- 1993, G. A. Rosso, Blake's Prophetic Workshop: A Study of The Four Zoas‎, page 80:
  Blake's depiction of the biblical Nimrod, whom Erdman traces to Young's poem, recalls Milton's Paradise Lost.
- 2005, J. B. Segal, Edessa: The Blessed City‎, page 1:
  In the fourth century St. Ephraim the Syrian wrote, in his commentary on Genesis, that Nimrod 'ruled in Erekh which is Orhay (Edessa)'. […] In Jewish and thereafter in Moslem tradition, Nimrod was the foe of Abraham.
- 2010, Khamit Raamah Kush, Faces of the Hamitic People, unnumbered page,
  The historical facts testify that they were highly developed; Nimrod, a descendant of Ham, therefore making him Hamitic, was the first human king not just of Bible record, but secular history also speaks of him. He ruled over a kingdom that included several cities in Mesopotamia.
A British biplane fighter aircraft manufactured by Hawker Aircraft in the early 1930s.
A British maritime patrol aircraft manufactured by Hawker Siddeley, in use from 1969 until 2011.

biblical king and hunter

Nimrod (plural Nimrods)

Any great hunter.
- 1966, Brian W. Downs, Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918 (page 116)
  Old Ekdal, whom Gregers remembers as Lieutenant Ekdal, his father's partner in the timber business up north and a mighty Nimrod, has, after a term of imprisonment for illicit tree-felling, become a shambling old drunkard, who solaces himself by sporting expeditions in the lean-to attic which his son and he have fitted up for the purpose with withered Christmas trees and a little menagerie of hens, rabbits and the like.
Alternative letter-case form of nimrod (“fool; idiot”)

Borrowed from Hebrew נִמְרוֹד‎ (Nimród).

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