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Nahum
the name means comfortable Strong's Lexicon
Nahum, identified as the Elkoshite, was a prophet of God who delivered a message of judgment against the Assyrian city of Nineveh.
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
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.
Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary, 1897 — public domain, quoted in full and unedited.
First named at Nahum 1:1.
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Verses that name Nahum
- Nahum 1:1 This is the burden against Nineveh, the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite: