The Nimrod Fortress or Nimrod's Fortress, (, " Castle of the Large Cliff ";, Mivtzar Nimrod ) is a medieval fortress situated in the northern Golan Heights, on a ridge rising about 800 m ( 2600 feet ) above sea level.

During the battle with Bastion's Nimrod Sentinels, Iceman is severely injured following an attack from one of them that reversed his ice form and left him with burns on his body.

In a few of the many extra-biblical sources that describe him, Shem is also credited with killing Nimrod, son of Cush.

The most powerful among them is Nimrod.

This might mean that Stephen is referring to the " old kings " which could only be Attila and Nimrod.

It is not specifically mentioned in the Bible that he ordered the tower to be built, but Nimrod is often associated with its construction in other sources.

" Babylon " is considered to have been in rebellion against " Earth's Rightful Ruler " ( Jah ) ever since the days of the Biblical king Nimrod.

In the Midrash ( Tanchuma Lekh Lekhah 6 ) and later Rabbinical literature, Amraphel was identified with Nimrod ( this is also attested to in the 11th Chapter of the Book of Jasher ).

The Hebrew wording of Genesis 10: 11 has led to some ambiguity as to whether Asshur here is the son of Shem or a city built by Nimrod ; either interpretation can be found in various modern versions.

Although it mostly died out 1600 to 1700 years ago, Mesopotamian religion has still had an influence on the modern world, predominantly because Biblical mythology that is today found in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandeanism shares some overlapping consistency with ancient Mesopotamian myths, in particular the Creation Myth, the Garden of Eden, The Great Flood, Tower of Babel and figures such as Nimrod and Lilith ( the Assyrian Lilitu ).

The grandest of all these and the most interesting is the temple of Nuba at Borsippa ( now Birs Nimrod ), near Babylon, which has been identified as the temple of the Seven Spheres.

It is also believed Uruk is the biblical ( Genesis 10: 10 ) Erech, the second city founded by Nimrod in Shinar.

The real theme of the Enigma Variations which is present everywhere throughout the work in different shapes, is rather short: it consists of only nine notes ( the first nine notes of Nimrod with added crotchet rests ) on the rhythm of Edward Elgar ’ s own name (" short-short-long-long ", and the reverse of it, " long-long-short-short " and an endnote ).

In many modern interpretations of the Hebrew text of Genesis 10, it is Nimrod, the son of Cush, who founded Nineveh ; other translations ( e. g., the KJV ) render the same Torah verse as naming Ashur ( Assyria ), son of Shem, as the founder of Nineveh.

Elvin Nimrod, NNP, is the representative for Carriacou and Petite Martinique Constituency.

Nimrod is a city in Wadena County, Minnesota, United States.

The town is named after the Biblical Nimrod.

Nimrod's city park is named Stigman's Mound, for Dick Stigman, relief pitcher on the 1965 American League Championship-winning Minnesota Twins, who was born in Nimrod.

Hislop believed that Semiramis was a consort of Nimrod, builder of the Bible's Tower of Babel, though Biblical mention of consorts to Nimrod is lacking.

Fearing it is Rogue's doing, they go in and find various parts of Rogue's past being projected around them, including her fight against Nimrod and being captured and beaten at Genosha.

The first mention of Nimrod is in the Table of Nations.

Erech ( Hebrew name ארך, meaning ' to extract ', ' draw out ', or ' long ') according to the Book of Genesis, was an ancient city in the land of Shinar, the second city built by king Nimrod.

The Bible does not mention any meeting between Nimrod and Abraham, although a confrontation between the two is said to have taken place, according to several Jewish and Islamic traditions.

From bed he quoted Sophocles in Greek the beautiful passage " wherein Oedipus recommends his children to the care of Creon " according to Apperley / Nimrod.

Cush ( also Kush, Biblical ) was, according to the Bible, the eldest son of Ham, brother of Mizraim ( Egypt ), Canaan and the father of the Biblical characters Nimrod, and Raamah, mentioned in the " Table of Nations " in the Genesis 10: 6 and I Chronicles 1: 8.

The Hebrew text of is somewhat ambiguous as to whether it was Asshur himself ( as the 1611 Authorized Version says ), or Nimrod ( as in some other English translations ) who, according to Biblical tradition, built the Assyrian cities of Nineveh, Resen, Rehoboth-Ir and Calah, since the name Asshur can refer to both the person and the country.

Nimrod is, according to the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles, the son of Cush and great-grandson of Noah and the king of Shinar.

Calneh () was said to be one of the four cities founded by Nimrod, according to Genesis 10: 10 in the Bible.

It also appears djinn age slower than mundanes, because according to Nimrod djinn can live up to 500 years and if bottled up in suspended animation, time cannot ravage a djinn until released from the bottle.

While the Qur ' an does not mention the king's name, Muslim commentators have assigned Nimrod as the king based on Jewish sources, namely the Book of Jasher ( 11: 1 and 12: 6 ).

According to an early Arabic work known as Kitab al-Magall or the Book of Rolls ( part of Clementine literature ), Harran was one of the cities built by Nimrod, when Peleg was 50 years old.

This is repeated in First Book of Chronicles and the " Land of Nimrod ", used as a synonym for Assyria, is mentioned in the Book of Micah Micah 5: 6:.

" Nimrod, who was the first to be a warrior on the earth " First Book of Chronicles, 1: 10.

The Book of Jubilees mentions the name of " Nebrod " ( the Greek form of Nimrod ) only as being the father of Azurad, the wife of Eber and mother of Peleg ( 8: 7 ).

An early Arabic work known as Kitab al-Magall or the Book of Rolls ( part of Clementine literature ) states that Nimrod built the towns of Hadâniûn, Ellasar, Seleucia, Ctesiphon, Rûhîn, Atrapatene, Telalôn, and others, that he began his reign as king over earth when Reu was 163, and that he reigned for 69 years, building Nisibis, Raha ( Edessa ) and Harran when Peleg was 50.

There is also an Eliezer known as Eliezer of Damascus (), son of Nimrod, and head of the patriarch Abraham's household mentioned in the Book of Genesis ( 15: 2 ).

Book the First tells the story of Nimrod, a powerful and monstrous king of Judaea.

Several of these early Judaic sources also assert that the king Amraphel, who wars with Abraham later in Genesis, is none other than Nimrod himself.

390, explains in Hebrew Questions on Genesis that after Nimrod reigned in Babel, " he also reigned in Arach, that is, in Edissa ; and in Achad, which is now called Nisibis ; and in Chalanne, which was later called Seleucia after King Seleucus when its name had been changed, and which is now in actual fact called Ctesiphon.

" However, this traditional identification of the cities built by Nimrod in Genesis is no longer accepted by modern scholars, who consider them to be located in Sumer, not Syria.

His name is derived from the Nimrod described in Genesis 10: 8-9 as " a mighty hunter before the Lord.

Nimrod, AC, and DC appear as bosses in the Sega Genesis adaption of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie under the respective names " Scarlet Sentinel Ring ", " Scartlet Sentinel Earring " and " Scarlet Sentinel Necklace ".