And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Ver. 8. Nimrod, he began to be a mighty one.] His name signifies a rebel: he was the chief Babel builder, and there began to be a mighty one. A giant, saith the Greek, - such another as Goliath was in his generation, 1Sa 17:51 where the same word is used, - a magnifico, a grandio; such a one as sought to make himself great, even to a proverb. Gen 10:9 But there is a double greatness; first, genuine; secondly, brutal. This latter is no such commendation; a beast in this may, and doth exceed us; as in the former, we exceed ourselves and others.