Nimrah

See BETH-NIMRAH and NIMRIM. NIMRIM, THE WATERS OF (ΟἿ; τὸ ὕδωρ τῆς Νεμί(η)ρείμ (Is 165), B Νεβρείν, A 'ESplu (Jer 48 (Gr. 31]*); Aqua Nemrim).—Mentioned only in Isaiah (15°) and Jeremiah (48). Gesenius (Lex) Nimrah or pres the meaning (the same as of eth-nimrah) ‘limpid or wholesome water,’ but the word is more probably held to indicate the place of the nimr or leopard (Bochart, Hieroz. li. 107, ed. Rosenmiill.) Nimrim need not, however, be confounded with Nimrah or Beth-nimrah (Nu 395.

*, Jos 1357), which seem to have been located on the northern shore of the Dead Sea. It is mentioned in connexion with Zoar, Luhith, and Horonaim in such a manner as to indicate its location south of the river Arnon at the south-eastern end of the Dead Sea. The Zoar denounced here by the prophets may be quite distinct from the refuge of Lot, which is by many located on the northern shore of the Dead Sea.

Josephus, however, states that Zoar (to which Lot fled) existed in his day, and places it together with Sodom and Gomorrah south of the Dead Sea (Ant. I. xi. 4, XIV. i. 4; BU Iv. viii. 4). Eusebius also places Zoar at the southern end of the Dead Sea, and Jerome appears to en- dorse this.

In the Middle Ages Zoar was identi- fied under the name of Segor in the same locality, and it is now accepted by many as represented by Dra’a at the mouth of the Wady Karak on the south-east shore of the Dead Sea. The posi- * The most ignorant notions on this question may be still fou νὰ among the natives; see Luttke, Aegyptens neue Zeit, ti. 356. t Lepsius, Denkm., ii, 189, ete. t Legrain in 2g. Z. xxxiv. § Egyp. Expl. Fund's Report for 1897-98, p. 7. Π τ Δ, κακαὶ i, 86. « Ed. Evotts, (.

184 ** Brogsch, Die bibl. 7 Jahre, Of. above, vol. ii. p, 774 note ἡ. tt Bondi, LeAnwdrter, 129. ) NIMROD tion of Luhith can only be surmised. days of Eusebius it was known as Luith, and la between Areopolis (Rabbath Moab) and Zoar. It may therefore have been the name of the pass leading down the Wady Beni Hamid from Areo- polis to Zoar; while Horonaim, ‘ the two caverns,’ may have been the name of the fort or forts com- manding the pass leading down from Kir of Moab to Zoar (see Kir OF MOAB).

A name resembling Nimrim has been found By de Saulcy, Seetzen, and Tristram in Bory Nemeira and Wady N’meirah about eight miles south of Dra’a (Zoar), in one of the richest and most The ‘ Waters of Nimrim’ were found by Klein at a spot higher luxuriant spots in the country. up, where were the ruins of an old town and irri- rated garden bearing the name ‘the Springs of imeivah’; in close proximity was also found the ‘brook of the willows,’ spoken of in connexion with Nimrim (Is 15’).

These passages call attention to the abundance begotten by those waters, the and hay ; and Tristram relates that the greenness, exuberant fertility, and gered fountains are still as marked as ever (Bible Places, p. 353). Lireraturs.—Dillmann, Jesaja, ad loc.; Cheyne, Proph. of Isaiah’, ad loc. (accepts, while Dillm. rejects, identity with Beth-nimrah of Nu); Buhl, GAP 124, 272; de Saulcy, i. 283 ff., ii. 52; Seetzen, ii. 354, iii, 18; Palmer, Desert of the Exodus, 465. C. WARREN.