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# נֹפַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5302

**Nophah** — 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

Nophah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5302/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֹ֫פַח: n.pr.loc. Pu. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5302/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** appar. n.pr.loc. Nu 21:30 (= נֹבַח?) perhaps נֻפַּח (𝔊 προσεξέκαυσαν), v. נפח Pu.

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 (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Numbers 21:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.30/#tree)

וַנִּירָ֛ם אָבַ֥ד חֶשְׁבּ֖וֹן עַד־דִּיב֑וֹן וַנַּשִּׁ֣ים עַד־נֹ֔פַח אֲשֶׁ֖רׄעַד־מֵֽידְבָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and we shot.at.them it.has.perished Heshbon to Dibon and we.have.devastated to Nophah which \[is\].to Medeba

*JPS 1917:* We have shot at them — Heshbon is perished — even unto Dibon, and we have laid waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5302.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5302/): 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).