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say it: NAH-uhm
nahum is a noun meaning "a Hebrew minor prophet of the 7th century BC". It is pronounced /ˈnæhəm/ — NAH-uhm. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a Hebrew minor prophet of the 7th century BC
an Old Testament book telling Nahum's prophecy of the fall of Nineveh
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nahum come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.