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# נְבוֹ

Biblical Hebrew

**Nebo** — used 12 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

Nebo [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5b9/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נְבוֹ: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5b9/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (prob. connex., at least for 2, with (Bab.) god Nebo, Nabû, cf. ii. נְבוֹ and BaeRel. 15, 89, 259; yet not certain, NöZMG xiii. 1888, 470 comp. Arabic النَبَاوَةُ the height, etc.): 𝔊 Ναβαυ;— city in Moab Nu 32:3, 38 (where assigned to Reuben; both JE = נבה MI 14) Is 15:2 Je 48:1, 22 1 Ch 5:8; prob. on or near Mt. Nebo (v. infr.), cf. BuhlGeogr. 266 f. TristrMoab 338. city in Judah, בְּנֵי נ׳ Ezr 2:29 = אַנְשֵׁי נ׳ אַחֵר Ne 7:34 (the men of the other N., so disting.—si. אחר vera l, cf. Ryle—from a? or from another נֹב?), Ezr 10:43;—this נבו in Judah perhaps = נֹב 1 q.v. mt. in Moab, where Moses dies Nu 33:47 Dt 32:49 (הַר־נְבוֹ), 34:1 (id.; all P), six miles W. of Heshbon according to Onom. (ed. Lag283). Prob. = mod. Nebâ at NE. corner of Dead Sea, SurveyE. Pal. i. 198 ff. GASmGeogr. 562 ff. BuhlGeogr. 266 f. TristrMoab 318, 338 MerrillE. of Jordan, 242 ff.—Cf. פִּסְגָּה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Nebo (7); of Nebo (5).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.29/#tree)

בְּנֵ֥י נְב֖וֹ חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Nebo fifty and two

*JPS 1917:* The children of Nebo, fifty and two.

[Nehemiah 7:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.33/#tree)

אַנְשֵׁ֥י נְב֛וֹ אַחֵ֖ר חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* the.men of.Nebo \[the\].other fifty and two

*JPS 1917:* The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5b9.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5b9/): 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).