BDB4933
I. נְבוֺ proper name [of a location] (probably connection, at least for 2, with (Babylonian) god Nebo, Nabû, compare II. נְבוֺ and BaeRel. 15. 89, 259; yet not certain, NöZMG xiii. 1888, 470 compare Arabic [untranscribed source text 3144] the height, etc.): ᵐ5 Ναβαυ; —
1.
a.
city in Moab
Num 32:3; Num 32:38 (where
assigned to Reuben; both
J
E
= נבה
MI14
) Isa 15:2
; Jer 48:1;
Jer 48:22;
1Chr 5:8 probably on
or near Mt. Nebo (see below), compare BuhlGeogr. 266 f.
TristrMoab 338.
b. city in Judah, ׳
בְּנֵי נ
Ezra 2:29 =
אַחֵר
׳
אַנְשֵׁי נ
Neh 7:34 (
the men of the other N., so distinguished — si אחר vera l., compare Ryle —
from a
? or from another
נֹב ?), Ezra 10:43 — this נבו in Judah perhaps = נֹב
1 q. v.
2. mountain in Moab, where Moses died Num 33:47; Deut 32:49 (הַרנְֿבוֺ), Deut 34:1 (id.; all
P
), six miles west of Heshbon according to Onomastica (ed. Lag283
). Probably = modern Nebâ at northeast corner of Dead Sea, SurveyE. Pal. i. 198 ff.
GASmGeogr. 562 ff.
BuhlGeogr. 266 f.
TristrMoab 318, 338 MerrillEast of Jordan, 242 ff.
— compare פִּסְגָּה.