נְבוֹNᵉbôw
נְבוֺ: proper name [of a location]: Nebo, Nabû, the height
Pronunciation: neb-o' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5015
Meanings
1.
a. city in Moab (Numbers 32:3; Numbers 32:38; Isaiah 15:2)
b. ? or from another, city in Judah (Ezra 2:29; Nehemiah 7:34; Ezra 10:43)
2. mountain in Moab, where Moses died (Numbers 33:47; Deuteronomy 32:49; Deuteronomy 34:1)
נְבוֺ: proper name [of a divinity]: Nebo, Babylonian god (Isaiah 46:1)
Where it appears
Appears 13 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 32:3 “Notice the towns of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sibmah, Nebo, and Beon.
- Numbers 32:38 Nebo, Baal-meon, and Sibmah. They changed the names of some of the towns they conquered and rebuilt.
- Numbers 33:47 They left Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains east of the river, near Mount Nebo.
- Deuteronomy 32:49 “Go to Moab, to the mountains east of the river, and climb Mount Nebo, which is across from Jericho. Look out across the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the people of Israel as their own special possession.
- Deuteronomy 34:1 Then Moses went up to Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab and climbed Pisgah Peak, which is across from Jericho. And the Lord showed him the whole land, from Gilead as far as Dan;
- 1 Chronicles 5:8 and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel. The Reubenites lived in the area that stretches from Aroer to Nebo and Baal-meon.
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).