NIMROD
(nim' rod) HEBREW: NIMROD
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The son of Cush, Nimrod was the grandson of Noah's son Ham. Nimrod ruled in Mesopotamia after the Flood, "the first on earth to be a mighty man" (Gen. 10:8). His kingdom was said to have stretched across what would later be Babylonia and Assyria. Renowned as a hunter, he is also by tradition the first to eat meat and to make war. Nimrod was also said to have founded the cities of Babel, Erech, and Accad in Shinar (Babylonia), and then the cities of Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and Resen in Assyria, a country later referred to in the Bible as "the land of Nimrod" (Mic. 5:6).
Scholars have made numerous efforts to identify Nimrod, but there is no consensus. In traditional literature, Nimrod conceived the tower of Babel that rabbis would later call "the house of Nimrod." According to Josephus, Nimrod was "a bold man, and of great strength in hand," who thought to outsmart God by building a tower too high for rising waters in case God "should have a mind to drown the world again."
{E2 Dictionary of Biblical People}