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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/

Oh thanks for recontextualizing that word for me. I'm guessing Bugs Bunny used that as an insult against Elmer "nimrod" because he's a hunter (as the word means). I definately learned something new today lol.