How to Pronounce Ninive
NIN-eh-veh
Ninive is pronounced NIN-eh-veh: three syllables, stress on the first.
What does Ninive mean?
Ninive means “handsome; agreeable”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
Where was Ninive?
First mentioned in Gen. 10:11, which is rendered in the Revised Version, “He [i.e., Nimrod] went forth into Assyria and builded Nineveh.” It is not again noticed till the days of Jonah, when it is described (Jonah 3:3; 4:11) as a great and populous city, the flourishing capital of the Assyrian empire (2 Kings 19:36; Isa. 37:37). The book of the prophet Nahum is almost exclusively taken up with prophetic denunciations against this city. Its ruin and utter desolation are foretold (Nah. 1:14; 3:19, etc.). Zephaniah also (2:13-15) predicts its destruction along with the fall of the empire of which it was the capital.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.