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# נוֹד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5113

**Nod** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Nod [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5113/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נוֹד²: n.pr.terr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5113/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** appar. n.pr.terr. ארץ־נ׳ Gn 4:16 of region into which Cain wandered (cf. v 12, 14); 𝔊 (strangely) Ναιδ; 𝔙 appellat., profugus in terra, cf. Symm Theod, v. NeMargin 9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Nod (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 4:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.4.16/#tree)

וַיֵּ֥צֵא קַ֖יִן מִלִּפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב בְּאֶֽרֶץ־נ֖וֹד קִדְמַת־עֵֽדֶן׃

*Word for word:* and he.went.out Cain from before Yahweh and he.dwelt in the.land of.Nod the.east of.Eden

*JPS 1917:* And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5113.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5113/): 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).