נֹבNôb
Nob, a place in Palestine
Pronunciation: nobe · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5011
Meanings
1. ancient priestly city, Site dubious (1 Samuel 22:19; 1 Samuel 22:11; 1 Samuel 21:2)
2. just north of Jerusalem, perhaps = 1 (Isaiah 10:32; Nehemiah 11:32; 2 Samuel 21:6)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 6 times in the Bible.
- 1 Samuel 21:1 David went to the town of Nob to see Ahimelech the priest. Ahimelech trembled when he saw him. “Why are you alone?” he asked. “Why is no one with you?”
- 1 Samuel 22:9 Then Doeg the Edomite, who was standing there with Saul’s men, spoke up. “When I was at Nob,” he said, “I saw the son of Jesse talking to the priest, Ahimelech son of Ahitub.
- 1 Samuel 22:11 King Saul immediately sent for Ahimelech and all his family, who served as priests at Nob.
- 1 Samuel 22:19 Then he went to Nob, the town of the priests, and killed the priests’ families—men and women, children and babies—and all the cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.
- Nehemiah 11:32 They also lived in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
- Isaiah 10:32 The enemy stops at Nob for the rest of that day. He shakes his fist at beautiful Mount Zion, the mountain of Jerusalem.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).