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# נֹא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4996

**No. Compare** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

No. Compare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/4996/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֹא: n.pr.loc. No Thebes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/4996/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. No = Thebes (Egyptian nt, city, i.e. prob. nē(t), v. SteindBAS i. 596 f.; Assyrian Ni-ʾu, Ni-iʾ DlPar 318 Steind l.c. SchrCOT gloss.; Tel Am. Nî (Ni-i) WklTel Am. 39 BezTel Am. in BM 153);—הִנְנִי פוֹקֵד אֶל־אָמוֹן מִנֹּא Je 46:25 Amon from (of, 𝔊 ἐν = בְּ) No; נֹא אָמוֹן Na 3:8 No of Amon (= city of god Ammon, = 𝔊 Διόσπολις Ez 30:14, 16 Steind l.c.; v. also Jerem. and BillerbeckBAS iii. 104 f.); Ez 30:14 (‖ פַּתְרוֹס, צֹ֫עַן), וְהִכְרַתִּי אֶת־הֲמוֹן נֹא v 15 (‖ סִין; but 𝔊 Co Berthol נֹף q.v. for נֹא) v 16 (‖ סִין, Co סון). It lay on the right bank of the Nile, c. 400 miles (by the river) S. of Memphis.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Thebes (3); of Thebes (1); than No (1).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 30:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.15/#tree)

וְשָׁפַכְתִּ֣י חֲמָתִ֔י עַל־סִ֖ין מָע֣וֹז מִצְרָ֑יִם וְהִכְרַתִּ֖י אֶת־הֲמ֥וֹן נֹֽא׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.pour.out rage my on Sin the.stronghold of.Egypt and I.will.cut.off (et) the.multitude of.Thebes

*JPS 1917:* And I will pour My fury upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

[Ezekiel 30:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.14/#tree)

וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִי֙ אֶת־פַּתְר֔וֹס וְנָתַ֥תִּי אֵ֖שׁ בְּצֹ֑עַן וְעָשִׂ֥יתִי שְׁפָטִ֖ים בְּנֹֽא׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.devastate (et) Pathros and I.will.put fire in Zoan and I.will.bring.about judgments on Thebes

*JPS 1917:* And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4996.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/4996/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).