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Strong's #5015: Nbow (pronounced neb-o')

probably of foreign derivation; Nebo, the name of a Babylonian deity, also of a mountain in Moab, and of a place in Palestine:--Nebo.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

nebô

Nebo = "prophet"

1) a Babylonian deity who presided over learning and letters; corresponds to Greek Hermes, Latin Mercury, and Egyptian Thoth (noun proper masculine)

2) a city in Moab and at one time assigned to Reuben; probably located on or near Mount Nebo (noun proper locative)

3) a city in Judah (maybe Benjamin) from which the families of some exiles, who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel, originally came (noun proper locative)

4) the mountain where Moses died; located east of the Jordan opposite Jericho; site uncertain (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: probably of foreign derivation

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1279, 1280



Usage:

This word is used 13 times:

Numbers 32:3: "and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,"
Numbers 32:38: " And Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed), and Shibmah: and gave other names"
Numbers 33:47: "and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo."
Deuteronomy 32:49: "mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that"
Deuteronomy 34:1: "from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that"
1 Chronicles 5:8: "dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-meon:"
Ezra 2:29: "The children of Nebo, fifty and two."
Ezra 10:43: "Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau,"
Nehemiah 7:33: "The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two."
Isaiah 15:2: "Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads"
Isaiah 46:1: "Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth, their idols were upon the beasts, and upon the cattle:"
Jeremiah 48:1: "of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded"
Jeremiah 48:22: "And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth-diblathaim,"









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