The giant '''Nimrod''' was a son in law of Cush son of Ham; his name has become proverbial as that of a mighty hunter. He has been identified with the white Titan Cronus-Saturn in Greco-Roman myth father of black Poseidon-Neptune father of a so-called "semitic" people known as the Phoenicians. His "kingdom" (called Kish and somewhat semitic in language according to Sumerian records) comprised Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Sinar, otherwise known as the land of Nimrod (Gen. x. 8-10; I Chron. i. 10; Micah v. 5 [A. V. 6]).E. G. H. M. Sel. Although he was the father of Abraham's servant, Eliezer, his own paternity (being only a son-in law to Cush) is subject of some controversy but might be identified with Assyrian Ashur or Asar of Mitzraim since much of the Arabian peninsula of Nimrodia eventually became the Assyrian Empire as well as because of the genetic relationship of so-called "Semitic" languages to other Afroasiatic languages like ancient Egyptian. Rabbinical tradition that so-called "semitic" languages were used at the tower of Babel would therefore favour his paternal descent from Mitzraim.