Genesis 10:8
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Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.

A.

1715. B.C.

2289. Nimrod.

Micah 5:6 And this man shall be our peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall set his foot in our houses: and we shall raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

Context
The Hamites
7And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabatacha. The sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan. 8Now Chus begot Nemrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.9And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.…
Cross References
Genesis 10:7
And the sons of Chus: Saba, and Hevila, and Sabatha, and Regma, and Sabatacha. The sons of Regma: Saba, and Dadan.

Genesis 10:9
And he was a stout hunter before the Lord. Hence came a proverb: Even as Nemrod the stout hunter before the Lord.

Isaiah 18:2
That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, and in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters. Go, ye swift angels, to a nation rent and torn in pieces: to a terrible people, after which there is no other: to a nation expecting and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have spoiled.

Micah 5:6
And this man shall be our peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall set his foot in our houses: and we shall raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

Lexicon
And Cush
וְכ֖וּשׁ (wə·ḵūš)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3568: A son of Ham, also his descendants, also a land in the southern Nile Valley

was the father of
יָלַ֣ד (yā·laḏ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

Nimrod,
נִמְרֹ֑ד (nim·rōḏ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5248: Nimrod -- a son of Cush and founder of the Babylonian kingdom

who
ה֣וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

grew
הֵחֵ֔ל (hê·ḥêl)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play

to be
לִֽהְי֥וֹת (lih·yō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a mighty warrior
גִּבֹּ֖ר (gib·bōr)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1368: Powerful, warrior, tyrant

on the earth.
בָּאָֽרֶץ׃ (bā·’ā·reṣ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land


Additional Translations
And Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth.And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

And Chus begot Nebrod: he began to be a giant upon the earth.

And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be mighty on the earth.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

Cush became the father of Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth.

And Cush hath begotten Nimrod;
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