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:
Joshua 19:34: "from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side,"
Judges 1:9: "against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley."
Judges 1:15: "me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water."
Judges 1:16: "of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went"
Judges 21:19: "of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel"
1 Samuel 14:5: "northward over against Michmash, and the other southward over against Gibeah."
1 Samuel 20:41: "David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground,"
1 Samuel 27:10: "And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites,"
1 Samuel 27:10: "the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites."
1 Samuel 27:10: "the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites."
1 Samuel 30:1: "day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten"
1 Samuel 30:14: "We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon"
1 Samuel 30:14: "the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire."
1 Samuel 30:27: "To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,"
2 Samuel 24:7: "and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, even to Beer-sheba."
1 Kings 7:25: "looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east:"
1 Kings 7:39: "on the right side of the house eastward over against the south."
1 Chronicles 9:24: "toward the east, west, north, and south."
1 Chronicles 26:15: "To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim."
1 Chronicles 26:17: "northward four a day, southward four a day, and toward Asuppim two"
2 Chronicles 4:4: "looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east:"
2 Chronicles 4:10: "side of the east end, over against the south."
2 Chronicles 28:18: "also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh,"
Psalms 126:4: "our captivity, O LORD, as the streams in the south."
Isaiah 21:1: "of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert,"
Isaiah 30:6: "The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young"
Jeremiah 13:19: "The cities of the south shall be shut up, and none shall open them: Judah shall be carried away captive all"
Jeremiah 17:26: "of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing"
Jeremiah 32:44: "and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south: for I will cause their captivity to return,"
Jeremiah 33:13: "in the cities of the vale, and in the cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem,"
Ezekiel 20:46: "and prophesy against the forest of the south field;"
Ezekiel 20:47: "And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith"
Ezekiel 20:47: "be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned"
Ezekiel 21:4: "out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:"
Ezekiel 40:2: "by which was as the frame of a city on the south."
Ezekiel 46:9: "to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south"
Ezekiel 46:9: "gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north"
Ezekiel 47:1: "came down from under from the right side of the house,"
Ezekiel 47:19: " And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife"
Ezekiel 47:19: "the great sea. And this is the south side southward."
Ezekiel 48:10: "ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length:"
Ezekiel 48:16: "thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five"
Ezekiel 48:17: "toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred"
Ezekiel 48:28: "the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be"
Ezekiel 48:33: " And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three"
Daniel 8:4: "pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand"
Daniel 8:9: "little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east,"
Daniel 11:5: "And the king of the south shall be strong, and one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion;"
Daniel 11:6: "they shall join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north"
Daniel 11:9: "So the king of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own land."
