H5210 H5210
Nineveh — ancient capital of Assyria on the Tigris, site of Jonah's prophetic mission and symbol of imperial power under divine judgment.
One of the most storied cities of the ancient Near East, Nineveh served as the grand capital of the Assyrian Empire, situated on the eastern bank of the Tigris opposite modern Mosul. In Scripture it appears as both a mighty metropolis — called 'the great city' in Jonah 3:3 — and a target of divine wrath. Jonah's reluctant mission there and Nahum's oracle against it frame the city as a vivid case study in repentance, pride, and ultimate ruin. The multilingual glosses uniformly render the name without variation, underscoring its fixed identity across all traditions.
Senses
1. Nineveh — The proper name of the Assyrian capital, appearing in Genesis 10:11-12 as founded in primordial history, in 2 Kings 19:36 and Isaiah 37:37 as Sennacherib's royal residence, and most prominently in Jonah and Nahum as the object of prophetic warning and doom. Translations across English, Spanish, French, and German uniformly transliterate as 'Nineveh/Ninive,' confirming its universal recognition as a geographic proper noun. 17×
AR["فِي-نِينَوَى", "نِينَوَى", "وَ-نِينَوَى", "وَنِينَوَى"]·ben["এবং-নীনবে", "নীনবীকে", "নীনবে", "নীনবেতে", "নীনবের"]·DE["Ninive", "[בנינוה]", "[נינוה]", "in-Nineveh", "in-Ninive", "und-Ninive"]·EN["Nineveh", "and-Nineveh", "in-Nineveh"]·FR["Ninive", "[בנינוה]", "dans-Nineveh", "dans-Ninive", "et-Ninive"]·heb["ב-נינוה", "ב-נינווה", "ו-נינווה", "נינוה", "נינווה"]·HI["और-नीनवे", "नीनवे", "नीनवे-का", "नीनवे-के", "नीनवे-में", "नीनवेह", "नीनवेह-को", "नीनवेह-में", "में-नीनवेह"]·ID["Dan-Niniwe", "Niniwe", "Niniwe,", "dan-Niniwe", "di-Niniwe", "tentang-Niniwe;"]·IT["Nineveh", "Ninive", "[בנינוה]", "e-Ninive", "in-Ninive"]·jav["Lan-Ninewé", "Ninewè", "Ninewé", "Niniwe", "ing-Ninewè", "lan-Ninewè"]·KO["그리고-니니베-가", "그리고-니니베-는", "니느베에", "니느웨", "니니베", "니니베-가", "니니베-의", "에-니니베에", "에서-니니베"]·PT["Nineve", "Nineveh", "de-Nineve", "e-Nineve", "e-Nineveh", "em-Nineveh", "em-Nineweh"]·RU["Ниневией", "Ниневии", "Ниневию", "Ниневия", "в-Ниневии", "и-Ниневия", "о-Ниневии"]·ES["Ninive", "Nínive", "Y-Ninive", "Y-Nínive", "en-Ninive", "en-Nínive", "y-Ninive"]·SW["Na-Ninawi", "Ninawi", "katika-Ninawi", "na-Ninawi", "wa-Ninawi"]·TR["-Ninova'da", "Ninive'nin", "Ninive'yi", "Ninova", "Ninova'da", "Ninova'nın", "Ninova'yı", "Ve-Ninova", "ve-Ninova"]·urd["اور-نینوہ", "میں-نینوہ", "نینوہ", "نینوہ-میں", "نینوہ-کا", "نینوہ-کی", "نینوہ-کے"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† נִינְוֵה n.pr.loc. Nineveh, capital of Assyria (Assyrian Ninâ, Ninua, Ninû, cf. Schr COT Gloss. DlPar260);—Gn 10:11, 12 (J), 2 K 19:36 = Is 37:37, Na 1:1; 2:9; 3:7; Zp 2:13 Jon 1:2; 3:3a, 4, 5, 6, 7, called הָעִיר הַגְּדוֹלָה v 3b; 4:11 (cf. 3:4f.); 𝔊 Νινευη, 𝔊L Νινευι. Site on E. bank of Tigris marked by mounds Neby Yunus and Kuyundjik, opposite Mosul. Cf. Layard Nineveh and its Remains, 1848; Monuments of N. 1849 f. Billerbeck u. Jeremias BAS iii. 1 (1895), 107 ff.