Ninveh נִינְוֵה

Ninveh (Hebrew נִינְוֵה, Strong's H5210) is a place name in the Old Testament, glossed “Nineveh”. It occurs 17 times.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Ninveh, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

• Genesis 10:11
  Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,From that land he went forth into Assyria, where he built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,
• Genesis 10:12
  And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city of Calah.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 19:36
  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 37:37
  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

Jonah

• Jonah 1:2
  Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before Me.”
• Jonah 3:2
  Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and proclaim to it the message that I give you.”
• Jonah 3:3
  So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.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.
• Jonah 3:4
  And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.On the first day of his journey, Jonah set out into the city and proclaimed, “Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned!”
• Jonah 3:5
  So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.
• Jonah 3:6
  For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.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.
• Jonah 3:7
  And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water: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.
• Jonah 4:11
  And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?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?”

Nahum

• Nahum 1:1
  The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite:
• Nahum 2:8
  But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.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.
• Nahum 3:7
  And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?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?”

Zephaniah

• Zephaniah 2:13
  And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.And He will stretch out His hand against the north and destroy Assyria; He will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as a desert.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).