. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ient in-habitants of the country are the so-called Chaldeanor Nestorian tribes, inhabiting the mountains ofKurdistan, the plains round the lake of Ooroomiyahin Persia, and a few villages in the neighborhoodof Mosul. They still speak a Shemitic dialect, al-most identical with the Chaldee of Daniel and resemblance, which may be but fanciful, has beentraced between them and the representations of theAssyrians in the bas-reliefs. Their physical char-acteristics at any rate seem to mark them as of thesame race. A curse appears to hang over a landna
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . ient in-habitants of the country are the so-called Chaldeanor Nestorian tribes, inhabiting the mountains ofKurdistan, the plains round the lake of Ooroomiyahin Persia, and a few villages in the neighborhoodof Mosul. They still speak a Shemitic dialect, al-most identical with the Chaldee of Daniel and resemblance, which may be but fanciful, has beentraced between them and the representations of theAssyrians in the bas-reliefs. Their physical char-acteristics at any rate seem to mark them as of thesame race. A curse appears to hang over a landnaturally rich and fertile, and capable of sustaininga vast number of human beings. Those who nowinhabit it are yearly diminishing, and there seemsno prospect that for generations to come this once-favored country will remain other than a wilderness. Nine-vitcs = inhabitants of Nineveh (Lk. xi. 30). Nisan. Month. Nison — Nisan (Esth. xi. 2). Nisroch [-rok] (Heb., see below), the proper nameof an idol of Nineveh, in whose temple Sennacherib. Eagie-headed figure, supposed to be NiBroch.—From the N. W. Palace,(Layardfl Nineveh, i. 71.) was worshipping when assassinated by his sons,Adrammelech and Sharezer (2 K. xix. 37 ; Is. ). Rashi, in his note on Is. xxxvii. 38, explainsNisroch as a beam, or plank, of Noahs ark,47 from the analysis given of the word by Rabbinicalexpositors. What the true etymology may be isextremely doubtful. If the origin of the word beShemitic, it may be derived, as Gesenius suggests,from the Heb. ncsher, which is in Ar. nisr = aneagle, with the termination 6ch or &ch, so that Nis-roch = the great eagle. But this explanation is farfrom satisfactory. It is adopted, however, by Fiirst,and by Mr. Layard, who identifies with Nisroch theeagle-headed human figure, which is one of the mostprominent on the earliest Assyrian monuments, andis always represented as contending with and con-quering the lion or the bull. Ni tre [-ter] (Heb. nether) occurs in Pro
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