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Nahum
Consolation, the seventh of the so-called minor prophets, an Elkoshite. All we know of him is recorded in the book of his prophecies. He was probably a native of Galilee, and after the deportation of the ten tribes took up his residence in Jerusalem. Others think that Elkosh was the name of a place on the east bank of the Tigris, and that Nahum dwelt there.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- Nahum 1:1 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
