GeminiDeus posted...
I didn't find out until some time last year that Nimrod was actually a mighty hunter.
Nimrod is described in Genesis 10:812 as
the first on earth to be a mighty man
. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord. The only other references to Nimrod in the Bible are in Micah 5:6, where Assyria is called the land of Nimrod, and in 1 Chronicles 1:10, which reiterates his might.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod
It's only because of Bugs Bunny that we associate the name with buffoonery.
https://unrememberedhistory.com/2017/01/09/the-nimrod-effect-how-a-cartoon-bunny-changed-the-meaning-of-a-word-forever/
In Jewish and Islamic lore Nimrod is also known as the fool who challenged God so Bugs is kinda right.
Heck, in the Bible he's the king that built the Babel tower, so he's still the fool that challenges God.