Definition of "Nahum"

Nahum

proper noun
1. A book of the Tanakh / the Old Testament of the Bible.
2. The minor prophet who wrote that book.
3. (rare) A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.
  Quotations
  Nahum Tate's grandfather and father were both clergymen.
  1853, Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph, The Lives of the Poets-Laureate, page 197