Sentence:  In the fourth century St. Ephraim the Syrian wrote, in his commentary on Genesis, that <WSD>Nimrod</WSD> 'ruled in Erekh which is Orhay (Edessa)'....In Jewish and thereafter in Moslem tradition, <WSD>Nimrod</WSD> was the foe of Abraham. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A grandson of Ham; a mighty hunter and king of Shinar.