NIMRIM nĭm’ rĭm (נִמְרִ֖ים, basins of clear water, KB, 619). A locality in Moab.

Both Isaiah and Jeremiah predicted, “The waters of Nimrim are a desolation” (Isa 15:6; Jer 48:34). If the former were in effect tracing the Moabites’ southwestward “route of flight...to Edom” (J. Simons, Geographical and Topographical Texts of the OT, 436), downstream from Horonaim (Isa 15:5-7) and then S across the brook of willows (=the Edomite border, Zered; NIC, OT, Isa, I:459), then Nimrim would be the Seil en Numeirah, or stream-oasis near the E coast of the Dead Sea, half way between El Lisan and the southern tip of the Sea. The present fertile Wadi Nimrin, which flows into the Jordan eight m. N of the Dead Sea and marks the N limit of the Plains of Moab, seems more probable to be identified with the OT נִמְרָ֔ה (בֵּ֥ית), q.v. (Num 32:3, 36); cf. N. Glueck, “Explorations in E Pal., II, IV” AASOR XV (1934-1935), 7, 8; XXV-XXVIII (1945-1948), 366, 367.