Limitless Word
נִינְוֵהNîynᵉvêh/nee-nev-ay'/
HebrewH521017 occurrences (KJV)

Nineveh, the capital of Assyria

KJV renders it: Nineveh.

Where it appears(showing the first 16 of 17)

  • Gen 10:11Out of that land he went into Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
  • Gen 10:12and Resen between Nineveh and the great city Calah.
  • 2 Kgs 19:36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
  • Isa 37:37So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.
  • Jonah 1:2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.”
  • Jonah 3:2“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
  • Jonah 3:3So Jonah arose, and went to Nineveh, according to Yahweh’s word. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days’ journey across.
  • Jonah 3:4Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
  • Jonah 3:5The people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from their greatest even to their least.
  • Jonah 3:6The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
  • Jonah 3:7He made a proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, “Let neither man nor animal, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water;
  • Jonah 4:11Shouldn’t I be concerned for Nineveh, that great city, in which are more than one hundred twenty thousand persons who can’t discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much livestock?”
  • Nah 1:1A revelation about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
  • Nah 2:8But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.
  • Nah 3:7It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”
  • Zeph 2:13He will stretch out his hand against the north, destroy Assyria, and will make Nineveh a desolation, as dry as the wilderness.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.