Definition of "Nimrod"

Blake's depiction of the biblical Nimrod, whom Erdman traces to Young's poem, recalls Milton's Paradise Lost.

1993, G. A. Rosso, Blake's Prophetic Workshop: A Study of The Four Zoas‎, page 80

In the fourth century St. Ephraim the Syrian wrote, in his commentary on Genesis, that Nimrod 'ruled in Erekh which is Orhay (Edessa)'. […] In Jewish and thereafter in Moslem tradition, Nimrod was the foe of Abraham.

2005, J. B. Segal, Edessa: The Blessed City‎, page 1

The historical facts testify that they were highly developed; Nimrod, a descendant of Ham, therefore making him Hamitic, was the first human king not just of Bible record, but secular history also speaks of him. He ruled over a kingdom that included several cities in Mesopotamia.

2010, Khamit Raamah Kush, Faces of the Hamitic People, unnumbered page

Old Ekdal, whom Gregers remembers as Lieutenant Ekdal, his father's partner in the timber business up north and a mighty Nimrod, has, after a term of imprisonment for illicit tree-felling, become a shambling old drunkard, who solaces himself by sporting expeditions in the lean-to attic which his son and he have fitted up for the purpose with withered Christmas trees and a little menagerie of hens, rabbits and the like.

1966, Brian W. Downs, Modern Norwegian Literature 1860-1918, page 116