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# נוּן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5126

**Non** — used 30 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

Non [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5126/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נוּן²: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5126/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** and (1 Ch 7:27) נוֹן n.pr.m. father of Joshua 1 Ch 7:27; elsewhere always בִּן־נוּן(יְהוֹשֻׁעַ) Ex 33:11 Nu 11:28; 13:8, 16 + 22 times Nu Dt Jos (JEDP); also Ju 2:8 1 K 16:34 Ne 8:17; 𝔊 Ναυη (for Ναυν by error, cf. Thes).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Nun (29); Nun (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 13:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.13.8/#tree)

לְמַטֵּ֥ה אֶפְרָ֖יִם הוֹשֵׁ֥עַ בִּן־נֽוּן׃

*Word for word:* for the.tribe of.Ephraim Hoshea the.son of.Nun

*JPS 1917:* Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.

[1 Chronicles 7:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.27/#tree)

נ֥וֹן בְּנ֖וֹ יְהוֹשֻׁ֥עַ בְּנֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* Nun son \[was\].his Joshua son \[was\].his

*JPS 1917:* Nun his son, Joshua his son.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5126.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5126/): 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).