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:
Daniel 11:11: "And the king of the south shall be moved with anger, and shall come forth and fight with him, even with the king"
Daniel 11:14: "stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers of thy people shall exalt themselves"
Daniel 11:15: "the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people,"
Daniel 11:25: "and his courage against the king of the south with a great army; and the king of the south"
Daniel 11:25: "with a great army; and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with a very"
Daniel 11:29: "At the time appointed he shall return, and come toward the south; but it shall not be as the former, or as the latter."
Daniel 11:40: "And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north"
Obadiah 1:19: " And they of the south shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines:"
Obadiah 1:20: "shall possess the cities of the south."
Zechariah 7:7: "and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?"
Zechariah 14:4: "valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south."
Zechariah 14:10: "as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited"
