Strong's #5045: negeb (pronounced neh'-gheb)
from an unused root meaning to be parched; the south (from its drought); specifically, the Negeb or southern district of Judah, occasionally, Egypt (as south to Palestine):--south (country, side, -ward).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
negeb
1) south-country, Nekeb, south
1a) south-country
1a1) region of southern Judah, boundaries not specific
1b) south
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Relation: from an unused root meaning to be parched
Usage:
This word is used 112 times:
Genesis 12:9: "journeyed, going on still toward the south."
Genesis 13:1: "and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south."
Genesis 13:3: "And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place"
Genesis 13:14: "the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:"
Genesis 20:1: "And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between"
Genesis 24:62: "from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the south country."
Genesis 28:14: "to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth"
Exodus 26:18: "for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward."
Exodus 27:9: "the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court"
Exodus 36:23: "for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:"
Exodus 38:9: "And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court"
Exodus 40:24: "on the side of the tabernacle southward."
Numbers 13:17: "unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:"
Numbers 13:22: "And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai,"
Numbers 13:29: "The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell"
Numbers 21:1: "Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came"
Numbers 33:40: "the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming"
Numbers 34:3: " Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast"
Numbers 34:3: "of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outermost coast"
Numbers 34:4: "And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin:"
Numbers 34:4: "and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on"
Numbers 35:5: "the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits,"
Deuteronomy 1:7: "thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites,"
Deuteronomy 34:3: " And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar."
Joshua 10:40: "all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings:"
Joshua 11:2: "were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders"
Joshua 11:16: "land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley,"
Joshua 12:8: "and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites,"
Joshua 15:1: "of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast."
Joshua 15:2: " And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from"
Joshua 15:2: "sea, from the bay that looketh southward:"
Joshua 15:3: "And it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up"
Joshua 15:3: "to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along"
Joshua 15:4: "at the sea: this shall be your south coast."
Joshua 15:7: "is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border"
Joshua 15:8: "of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same"
Joshua 15:19: "me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water."
Joshua 15:21: "of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder,"
Joshua 17:9: "descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim"
Joshua 17:10: " Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together"
Joshua 18:5: "shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide"
Joshua 18:13: "the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar,"
Joshua 18:13: "to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-horon."
Joshua 18:14: "thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before"
Joshua 18:14: "that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at"
Joshua 18:15: " And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west,"
Joshua 18:16: "of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to En-rogel,"
Joshua 18:19: "of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south"
Joshua 18:19: "end of Jordan: this was the south coast."
Joshua 19:8: "to Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children"
