Nahum

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Nahum
    n 1: a Hebrew minor prophet of the 7th century BC
    2: an Old Testament book telling Nahum's prophecy of the fall of
       Nineveh [syn: {Nahum}, {Book of Nahum}]

from Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

Nahum
consolation, the seventh of the so-called minor prophets, an
Elkoshite. All we know of him is recorded in the book of his
prophecies. He was probably a native of Galilee, and after the
deportation of the ten tribes took up his residence in
Jerusalem. Others think that Elkosh was the name of a place on
the east bank of the Tigris, and that Nahum dwelt there.

from Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)

Nahum, comforter; penitent