NAHUM (

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• HEBREW

Hebrew for "

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• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich in comfort [is

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• GOD

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

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