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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 153 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAHUM (See also:Hebrew for " See also:rich in comfort [is See also:God] ")  , an Old Testament See also:prophet . The name occurs only in the See also:book of See also:Nahum; in See also:Nehemiah vii . 7 it is a scribal See also:error for " Rehum." Of the prophet himself all that is known is the statement of the See also:title that he was an Elkoshite . But the locality denoted by the designation is quite uncertain . Later tradition associated Nahum with the region of See also:Nineveh, against which he prophesied, and hence his See also:tomb has been located at a See also:place bearing the name of Alkush near See also:Mosul (anc . Nineveh) and is still shown.' According to See also:Jerome, the prophet was a native of a See also:village in See also:Galilee, which See also:bore the name of Elkesi in the 4th See also:century A.D . (the Galilean See also:town of See also:Capernaum, which probably means " village of Nahum," may also point in the same direction; but cf . See also:John vii . 29, which seems to imply that in the See also:time of See also:Christ no prophet was supposed to have come out of Galilee) . E . Nestle has proposed to locate Elkesi " beyond Betogabra " (i.e . See also:Eleutheropolis, mod .

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Beit Jibrin) in the tribe of See also:Simeon (cf . See also:Pal . Expl . Fund Quart . Statement, 1879, pp . 136-138) .

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