Word Study · Strong's H5210 · Hebrew
נִינְוֵה
Nineveh
nee-nev-ay'
Strong's 1890 spelling: Nîynᵉvêh
“Nineveh, the capital of Assyria”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
Nineveh, the capital of Assyria
Rendered in the KJV as
Nineveh.
- 17occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 6 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 13inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 17 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 13
- נִֽינְוֵ֖ה3
- בְּנִֽינְוֵֽה׃2
- נִֽינְוֵ֔ה2
- בְּנִֽינְוֵ֔ה1
- וְנִינְוֵ֥ה1
- וְנִֽינְוֵ֗ה1
- וְנִֽינְוֵ֖ה1
- נִ֣ינְוֵ֔ה1
- נִֽינְוֵ֑ה1
- נִֽינְוֵה֙1
- נִֽינְוֵ֛ה1
- נִינְוֵ֖ה1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 3
- Nineveh11
- and Nineveh3
- in Nineveh3
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- proper noun (a name)11
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNpl · 11
- HC/Npl · 3
- HR/Npl · 3
All 17, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Genesis2 occurrences
Jonah9 occurrences
- Jonah 1:2נִֽינְוֵ֛הninvehproper noun (a name)“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”here: Nineveh
- Jonah 3:2נִֽינְוֵ֖הninvehproper noun (a name)“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”here: Nineveh
- Jonah 3:3נִֽינְוֶ֖הninvehproper noun (a name)This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.here: Nineveh
- Jonah 3:3וְנִֽינְוֵ֗הveninevehconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)This time Jonah got up and went to Nineveh, in accordance with the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, requiring a three-day journey.here: and Nineveh
- Jonah 3:4וְנִֽינְוֵ֖הveninevehconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”here: and Nineveh
- Jonah 3:5נִֽינְוֵ֖הninvehproper noun (a name)And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.here: Nineveh
- Jonah 3:6נִֽינְוֵ֔הninvehproper noun (a name)When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.here: Nineveh
- Jonah 3:7בְּנִֽינְוֵ֔הbeninevehpreposition + proper noun (a name)Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let no man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink.here: in Nineveh
- Jonah 4:11נִינְוֵ֖הninvehproper noun (a name)So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”here: Nineveh
Nahum3 occurrences
- Nahum 1:1נִֽינְוֵ֑הninvehproper noun (a name)This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:here: Nineveh
- Nahum 2:8וְנִינְוֵ֥הveninevehconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)Nineveh has been like a pool of water throughout her days, but now it is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.here: and Nineveh
- Nahum 3:7נִֽינְוֵ֔הninvehproper noun (a name)Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”here: Nineveh