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n. - 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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  • Burrowes explains the rings as cylinders used as signets, such as are found in Nineveh, and which resemble fingers.
  • Nineveh is public, bold, and daring: He has come up before thy face, avowing his design to ruin thee; and therefore stand to thy arms, O
  • 8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away.
  • Jacob and Israel; and must not the excellency of Nineveh, that is so much her pride, be turned away too?
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