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It's interesting that the word has come to be mean "fool" because of Bugs Bunny, because he was actually just calling Elmer Fudd a hunter - which is what Elmer Fudd is.
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Nar (from Kaldean Mar meaning first born son, and Bar meaning son of) or NarMar (Nar the Mar). The word Marad as in rebels or marauders converts Namer the Rod (Narmer-rod) the rod or scepter into Nar the Marad (Merod) so as to be Nar-Merod the rebel. Narmer thus took the name Mena (Menes) as his rebirth name. Where Man was Noah (Man-Nu) and Mena (Menes) was Narmer or Nimrod, but both names were given then to Adam as man or men in Hattite-English. (see Mars and Marduk, and Mari where variations of son sons become brackish water, sea water, bitter water, tossed about).
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From wikipedia:
In 15th-century English, "Nimrod" had come to mean "tyrant". Coined in 20th-century American English, the term is now commonly used to mean "dimwitted or stupid fellow", a usage first recorded in 1932 and popularized by the cartoon character Bugs Bunny, who sarcastically refers to the hunter Elmer Fudd as "Nimrod", possibly as an ironic connection between "mighty hunter" and "poor little Nimrod", i.e. Fudd [noted -ed]
So I suppose this is true. But I grew up in the Chicago area and I never heard this usage applied. When I hear the name, I think of the Biblical character and I am not a huge Bible reader... weird.
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In 15th-century English, "Nimrod" had come to mean "tyrant". Coined in 20th-century American English, the term is now commonly used to mean "dimwitted or stupid fellow", a usage first recorded in 1932 and popularized by the cartoon character Bugs Bunny, who sarcastically refers to the hunter Elmer Fudd as "Nimrod", possibly as an ironic connection between "mighty hunter" and "poor little Nimrod", i.e. Fudd [noted -ed]
So I suppose this is true. But I grew up in the Chicago area and I never heard this usage applied. When I hear the name, I think of the Biblical character and I am not a huge Bible reader... weird.
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Nimrod in Hebrew means 'We will rebel'.
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I have never heard the word 'fool' connected with Nimrod until reading this comment thread but the association seems fitting -It is foolish to behave defiantly towards God.
Nimrod is from Hebrew. I believe the tyrant the Hebrew name Nimrod refers to is Sargon. He established the Akkadian empire. Genesis 10:10-12 records "The beginning of his (Nimrod's) kingdom was Babel, Erech (Uruk) and Accad (Akkad), all in Shinar (southern Mesopotamia), from that land he went into (what at the time of the historian's documentation was known as the land of) Assyria, and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah (kalhu in modern day Iraq), and Resen (undiscovered) between Nineveh (modern day Mosul in Iraq) and Calah; that is the great city."
Micah 5:5-6 in the Bible refers to Assyria in this way: "Assyria...the land of Nimrod".
Secular historians tell us Sargon grew up in Kish and became king of Kish. The bible lists Nimrod's father as Cush. (The city of Kish may have been founded by, and named after Cush, Nimrod's father and grandson of Noah).
Historians relating non-biblical sources tell us Sargon captured Uruk, founded Akkad and proceeded to successfully make conquest northward through Mesopotamia.