# נִינְוֵה (nineveh)

Israeli respelling: ni-ne-veh. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5210. 16 Old Testament occurrences.

Nineveh, the capital of Assyria

King James renderings: Nineveh.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/nineveh-h5210

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 10:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/10/11) — Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
- [Genesis 10:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/10/12) — And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.
- [2 Kings 19:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/19/36) — So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
- [Isaiah 37:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/37/37) — So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
- [Jonah 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/1/2) — Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.
- [Jonah 3:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/3/2) — Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
- [Jonah 3:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/3/3) — So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.
- [Jonah 3:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/3/4) — And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
- [Jonah 3:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/3/5) — So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
- [Jonah 3:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/3/6) — For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sa…
- [Jonah 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/3/7) — And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast…
- [Jonah 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/4/11) — And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right ha…
- [Nahum 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/1/1) — The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.
- [Nahum 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/8) — But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
- [Nahum 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/3/7) — And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whe…
- [Zephaniah 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/13) — And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.