NaumSmith's Dictionary(consolation), son of Esli, and father of Amos, in the genealogy of Christ, (Luke 3:25) about contemporary with the high priesthood of Jason all the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes. (B.C.175.)International Standard Bible Encyclopediana'-um: the King James Version form, NAHUM (which see), the name of an ancestor of Jesus (Lu 3:25).