Lexical Summary Nbow: a city in Moab, also a mountain in Moab Original Word: נְבוֹTransliteration: Nbow Phonetic Spelling: (neb-o') Part of Speech: proper name, of a location; proper name, of a divinity Short Definition: a city in Moab, also a mountain in Moab Meaning: Nebo -- a city in Moab, also a mountain in Moab Strong's Concordance Nebo Probably of foreign derivation; Nebo, the name of a Babylonian deity, also of a mountain in Moab, and of a place in Palestine -- Nebo. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5015. Nbow I. נְבוֺ proper name, of a location (probably connection, at least for 2, with (Babylonian) god Nebo, Nabû, compare II. נְבוֺ and BaeRel. 15. 89, 259; yet not certain, NöZMG xiii. 1888, 470 compare Arabic the height, etc.): ᵐ5 Ναβαυ; — 1. a. city in Moab Numbers 32:3, 38 (where assigned to Reuben; both J E = נבה MI14) Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:1, 22; 1 Chronicles 5:8; probably on or near Mt. Nebo (see below), compare BuhlGeogr. 266 f. TristrMoab 338. b. city in Judah, נ ׳בְּנֵי Ezra 2:29 = נ ׳אַנְשֵׁי אַחֵר Nehemiah 7:34 (the men of the other N., so distinguished — si אחר vera l., compare Ryle — from a ? or from another נֹב ?), Ezra 10:43; — this נבו in Judah perhaps = נֹב 1 q. v. 2 mountain in Moab, where Moses died Numbers 33:47; Deuteronomy 32:49 (הַרנְֿבוֺ), 34:1 (id.; all P), six miles west of Heshbon according to Onomastica (ed. Lag283). Probably = modern Nebâ at northeast corner of Dead Sea, SurveyE. Pal. i. 198 ff. GASmGeogr. 562 ff. BuhlGeogr. 266 f. TristrMoab 318, 338 MerrillEast of Jordan, 242 ff. — compare מִּסְגָּה. II. נְבוֺ proper name, of a divinity Nebo (loan-word in Hebrew, compare Phoenician proper name, masculine נבו; = Assyrian Nabû, SchrCOT Glossary and Isaiah 46:1 JastrRel. Babylonian 124 ff. JenKosmol. pass. TieleAss. u. Babylonian Geach. 532 f. SayRel. Bab 112 ff. (compare Palmyrene proper name ברנבו נבוזבד, VogPalm. No. 73), and this perhaps √ nabû, call, name, see נבא); — Babylonian god נְבוֺ קֹרֵם בֵּל כָּרַע 46:1. |
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