Marad

"Marad" (Merodach) to give the reading Ni-Marad = Nimrod.

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

Kerala: In a fit of anger, a 61-year-old woman hacked her husband to death at Marad near Calicut.

Wife Hacks Husband to Death 2008

And I say if you put it together with Moussaoui's arrest and what we learned from Marad back in 1996, most investigations have a bit of speculation in them.

CNN Transcript May 22, 2002 2002

By a process familiar to philologists the suffix "uk" was dropped and the rendering became Marad.

Myths of Babylonia and Assyria Donald Alexander Mackenzie 1904

-- This name means "king of Marad," a city as yet unidentified.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Theophilus Goldridge Pinches 1895

_Marad_, city in Babylonia, temple of Lugal-Marada, 242; native place of Gilgamesh, 473.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

Among these we find mention of the improvement of sanctuaries to the local deity of Marad, whom Nebuchadnezzar simply calls

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

Gilgamesh, secure in his victory, proceeds to offer the horns of the divine bull to his patron Lugal-Marada, the 'king' of Marad, and who appears to be identical with Shamash himself.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

The Hebrew scribes would seem to have altered the name of Merodach in two particulars: they dropped the last syllable, thus suggesting that the name was derived from _Marad_, "the rebellious one"; and they prefixed the syllable "Ni," just as "Nisroch" was written for "Assur."

The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889

[FN#67] Márid (lit. "contumacious" from the Heb. root Marad to rebel, whence "Nimrod" in late Semitic) is one of the tribes of the Jinn, generally but not always hostile to man.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855