Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H5210
נִינְוֵה
Ninevehnee-nev-ay'
Nineveh
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Nîynᵉvêh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5210is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5210
Nineveh, the capital of Assyria
The King James renders it: Nineveh.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Nineveh is rendered "Nineveh". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Jonah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 10:11From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
Genesis 10:11נִ֣ינְוֵ֔ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Nineveh11
- and Nineveh3
- in Nineveh3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- נִֽינְוֵ֖ה3
- בְּנִֽינְוֵֽה׃2
- נִֽינְוֵ֔ה2
- בְּנִֽינְוֵ֔ה1
- וְנִינְוֵ֥ה1
- וְנִֽינְוֵ֗ה1
- וְנִֽינְוֵ֖ה1
- נִ֣ינְוֵ֔ה1
- נִֽינְוֵ֑ה1
- נִֽינְוֵה֙1
- נִֽינְוֵ֛ה1
- נִינְוֵ֖ה1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)11HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3HR/Npl
Genesis
two uses
From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
- נִ֣ינְוֵ֔הninvehproper noun (a name)tagged: Nineveh
and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.
- נִֽינְוֵ֖הninvehproper noun (a name)tagged: Nineveh
2 Kings
one use
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
- בְּנִֽינְוֵֽה׃beninevehpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Nineveh
Isaiah
one use
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
- בְּנִֽינְוֵֽה׃beninevehpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Nineveh
Jonah
nine uses
“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
- נִֽינְוֵ֛הninvehproper noun (a name)tagged: Nineveh
“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
- נִֽינְוֵ֖הninvehproper noun (a name)tagged: Nineveh
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.
- נִֽינְוֶ֖הninvehproper noun (a name)tagged: Nineveh
- וְנִֽינְוֵ֗הveninevehconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Nineveh
On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”
- וְנִֽינְוֵ֖הveninevehconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Nineveh
And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.
- נִֽינְוֵ֖הninvehproper noun (a name)tagged: Nineveh
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.
- נִֽינְוֵ֔הninvehproper noun (a name)tagged: Nineveh
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.
- בְּנִֽינְוֵ֔הbeninevehpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: in Nineveh
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?”
- נִינְוֵ֖הninvehproper noun (a name)tagged: Nineveh
Nahum
three uses
This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
- נִֽינְוֵ֑הninvehproper noun (a name)tagged: Nineveh
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.
- וְנִינְוֵ֥הveninevehconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Nineveh
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?”
- נִֽינְוֵ֔הninvehproper noun (a name)tagged: Nineveh
Zephaniah
one use
And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.
- נִֽינְוֵה֙ninevehproper noun (a name)tagged: Nineveh
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.