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# נֹף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5297

**Noph** — used 7 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

Noph [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5297/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** v. מֹף.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (4 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: Memphis (5); of Memphis (2).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 2:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.2.16/#tree)

גַּם־בְּנֵי־נֹ֖ף וְתַחְפַּנְחֵ֑ס יִרְע֖וּךְ קָדְקֹֽד׃

*Word for word:* also the.people of.Memphis and Tahpanhes they will.graze.you crown.of.head

*JPS 1917:* The children also of Noph and Tahpanhes feed upon the crown of thy head.

[Isaiah 19:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.19.13/#tree)

נֽוֹאֲלוּ֙ שָׂ֣רֵי צֹ֔עַן נִשְּׁא֖וּ שָׂ֣רֵי נֹ֑ף הִתְע֥וּ אֶת־מִצְרַ֖יִם פִּנַּ֥ת שְׁבָטֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* they.have.become.fools the.officials of.Zoan they.have.been.deceived the.officials of.Memphis they.have.misled (et) Egypt the.corner its.tribes her

*JPS 1917:* The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have caused Egypt to go astray, that are the corner-stone of her tribes.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5297.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5297/): 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).