Nineveh

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1. Nineveh - Noun

2. Nineveh - Proper noun

Meaning

an ancient Assyrian city on the Tigris across from the modern city of Mosul in the northern part of what is now known as Iraq

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Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. John Masefield

Barbarism has its vices, its sophistries, no less than civilization. Your cynicisms and sophistications are weak and childish beside the elemental cynicism, the vital sophistication of what you call savagery. If our virtues were unspoiled as a new-born panther cub, our sins were older than Nineveh. Robert E. Howard

41 The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here." Source: Internet

After hearing about the Lord from Jonah, the people of Nineveh turn from their ways and the city is saved (Jonah 3:1-10). Source: Internet

After Jonah has walked across Nineveh, the people of Nineveh begin to believe his word and proclaim a fast. Source: Internet

An elaborate system of eighteen canals brought water from the hills to Nineveh, and several sections of a magnificently constructed aqueduct erected by Sennacherib were discovered at Jerwan, about 65 kilometres (40 mi) distant. Source: Internet

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