נֶגֶבnegeb
south-country, Negeb, south
Pronunciation: neh'-gheb · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5045
Meanings
1. south-country, i.e.
a. specifically the region south of Judah, boundaries not exactly defined (Joshua 15:21-32; Genesis 20:1; Genesis 24:62)
b. land south of Babylon (Isaiah 21:1)
c. = Egypt (Daniel 11:5; Daniel 11:6; Daniel 11:9)
2. hence south (opposed to north, east, west) (Genesis 13:14; Genesis 28:14; Joshua 17:10)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 112 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 12:9 Then Abram continued traveling south by stages toward the Negev.
- Genesis 13:1 So Abram left Egypt and traveled north into the Negev, along with his wife and Lot and all that they owned.
- Genesis 13:3 From the Negev, they continued traveling by stages toward Bethel, and they pitched their tents between Bethel and Ai, where they had camped before.
- Genesis 13:14 After Lot had gone, the Lord said to Abram, “Look as far as you can see in every direction—north and south, east and west.
- Genesis 20:1 Abraham moved south to the Negev and lived for a while between Kadesh and Shur, and then he moved on to Gerar. While living there as a foreigner,
- Genesis 24:62 Meanwhile, Isaac, whose home was in the Negev, had returned from Beer-lahai-roi.
See every passage
- Genesis 12:9, 13:1, 13:3, 13:14, 20:1, 24:62, 28:14
- Exodus 26:18, 27:9, 36:23, 38:9, 40:24
- Numbers 13:17, 13:22, 13:29, 21:1, 33:40, 34:3, 34:4, 35:5
- Deuteronomy 1:7, 34:3
- Joshua 10:40, 11:2, 11:16, 12:8, 15:1, 15:2, 15:3, 15:4, 15:7, 15:8, 15:19, 15:21, 17:9, 17:10, 18:5, 18:13, 18:14, 18:15, 18:16, 18:19, 19:8, 19:34
- Judges 1:9, 1:15, 1:16, 21:19
- 1 Samuel 14:5, 20:41, 27:10, 30:1, 30:14, 30:27
- 2 Samuel 24:7
- 1 Kings 7:25, 7:39
- 1 Chronicles 9:24, 26:15, 26:17
- 2 Chronicles 4:4, 4:10, 28:18
- Psalms 126:4
- Isaiah 21:1, 30:6
- Jeremiah 13:19, 17:26, 32:44, 33:13
- Ezekiel 20:46, 20:47, 21:4, 40:2, 46:9, 47:1, 47:19, 48:10, 48:16, 48:17, 48:28, 48:33
- Daniel 8:4, 8:9, 11:5, 11:6, 11:9, 11:11, 11:14, 11:15, 11:25, 11:29, 11:40
- Obadiah 1:19, 1:20
- Zechariah 7:7, 14:4, 14:10
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).