Where did the name Nimrod come from? And why was it turned into a slang that is used to insult a person? Who started useing this as a slang, and why? It was once a proud name to have, now it is not.
2007-03-20 04:39:10 · 7 answers · asked by Lon D 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
....in addition to that:
it's also the name of a green day album from 1997
2007-03-20 05:31:47 · answer #1 · answered by jupiter FIVE 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nimrod means "Let Us Revolt." Arab traditions record ruins named after him at Birs-Nimrod, which is Borsippa and at the Nimrud of Calah. His activities centered first in Shinar (Babylon) and included building the Tower of Babel. His name relates to the word marad, meaning "rebel." "Mighty hunter" is from Gen. 6:4. Noah's great grandson from Nimrod's grandfather Ham and father Cush. His wife was Semiramus and his son Tammuz. Semiramus began the line of gods and goddesses even until today. She had a mother/son cult after the death of Nimrod. Mighty Hunter is his prowess in hunting deals with men and that his exploits are not of a moral and spiritual nature. His cults came down as Ashtaroth, Baal, Aphrodite, Venus-goddess of love just to name just a very few. Semiramus as much as any held the title queen of heaven which was wickedness.
2007-03-20 12:05:33 · answer #2 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the Bible and in legend, Nimrod (Standard Hebrew × Ö´×ְר×Ö¹× Nimrod, Tiberian Hebrew × Ö´×Ö°×¨Ö¹× NimrÅá¸), son of Cush, grandson of Ham, great-grandson of Noah, was a Mesopotamian monarch and "a mighty hunter before Yahweh". He is mentioned in the Table of Nations (Genesis 10), in the First Book of Chronicles, and in the Book of Micah. In the Bible he is an obscure figure; in later interpretations, as recorded by Josephus and the rabbis who compiled the midrash, he is the subject of innumerable legends. The most prominent of these was the story that he built the Tower of Babel.:
2007-03-20 11:48:11 · answer #3 · answered by Hope Summer 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The name nimrod come from the Hebrew root "limrod" that means to rebel... I guess that's why it's is a negative name.
2007-03-20 13:11:16 · answer #4 · answered by yafit k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nimrod is referred to in the Bible as a mighty hunter and the composer Edward Elgar named one of his Enigma Variations after him, thanks to which I cannot think of Nimrod as anything but a good name.
But elsewhere he has a bad press. Josephus, the historian wrote of him: "Now it was Nimrod who excited them to such an affront and contempt of God. He was the grandson of Ham, the son of Noah, a bold man, and of great strength of hand. He persuaded them not to ascribe it to God, as if it was through his means they were happy, but to believe that it was their own courage which procured that happiness. He also gradually changed the government into tyranny, seeing no other way of turning men from the fear of God, but to bring them into a constant dependence on his power…" and ascribed to him the building of the Tower of Babel.
So it is an ambiguous name. Unless you are a fan of Elgar!
2007-03-20 12:19:39 · answer #5 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nimrod was a "mighty hunter" in the Old Testament of the Bible. I really don't understand how it became pejorative, possibly because of the structure of the name itself and associations in English.
2007-03-20 11:44:40 · answer #6 · answered by David B 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
nimrod was the guy that tried to build the tower of nimrod to reach god when god turned the languages they started using nimrod as slang for stupid because he was stupid enough to try to build a tower to reach god
2007-03-20 12:32:49 · answer #7 · answered by sexy_angel1529 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋