Nimrod
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Description
Son of Cush; 'a mighty hunter before Yahweh'. Founder of the first kingdom recorded in scripture: Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh in Shinar; from there into Assyria he built Nineveh, Calah, and Resen. Symbol of imperial human ambition.
Relationships
Family tree
Two generations up and down. Click any other person to recenter the tree on them. Solid lines are parent-of relationships; dashed pink lines are spouses; dashed amber lines are debated/tradition-divergent edges.