Nahum

Nahum is a Hebrew name connected with comforting and consoling. It belongs to one of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Hebrew Bible, and the Book of Nahum concerns the fall of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital. Minor describes the relative length of these prophetic books, rather than the importance of their writers or subjects.

The gentle meaning and the forceful subject of the biblical book give Nahum an interesting contrast within its own history. Nachum is another way of representing the Hebrew name, while Naum is used in several Eastern European languages. A family looking for a scriptural name can therefore connect Nahum to a particular text and to a wider group of linguistic forms, rather than relying on a meaning alone.