STRONGS NUMBER H5015


Word Summary
Nbow: a city in Moab, also a mountain in Moab
Original Word: נְבוֹ
Transliteration: Nbow
Phonetic Spelling: (neb-o')
Part of Speech: proper name, of a location; proper name, of a divinity
Short Definition: a city in Moab, also a mountain in Moab
Meaning: Nebo -- a city in Moab, also a mountain in Moab
Strong's Concordance
Nebo

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

H5015. Nbow

I. נְבוֺproper name, of a location (probably connection, at least for

2, with (Babylonian) god Nebo, Nabû, compare II. נְבוֺ‎ and BaeRel. 15. 89, 259; yet not certain, NöZMG xiii. 1888, 470 compare Arabic the height, etc.): ᵐ5Ναβαυ; —

1. a. city in Moab Numbers 32:3, 38 (where assigned to Reuben; both J E = נבה‎ MI14) Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:1, 22; 1 Chronicles 5:8; probably on or near Mt. Nebo (see below), compare BuhlGeogr. 266 f. TristrMoab 338.

b. city in Judah, נ ׳בְּנֵיEzra 2:29 = נ ׳אַנְשֵׁי אַחֵרNehemiah 7:34 (the men of the other N., so distinguished — si אחר‎ vera l., compare Ryle — from

a ? or from another נֹב‎ ?), Ezra 10:43; — this נבו‎ in Judah perhaps = נֹב1 q. v.

2 mountain in Moab, where Moses died Numbers 33:47; Deuteronomy 32:49 (הַרנְֿבוֺ‎), 34:1 (id.; all P), six miles west of Heshbon according to Onomastica (ed. Lag283). Probably = modern Nebâ at northeast corner of Dead Sea, SurveyE. Pal. i. 198 ff. GASmGeogr. 562 ff. BuhlGeogr. 266 f. TristrMoab 318, 338 MerrillEast of Jordan, 242 ff. — compare מִּסְגָּה‎.

II. נְבוֺproper name, of a divinity Nebo (loan-word in Hebrew, compare Phoenician proper name, masculine נבו‎; = Assyrian Nabû, SchrCOT Glossary and Isaiah 46:1 JastrRel. Babylonian 124 ff. JenKosmol. pass. TieleAss. u. Babylonian Geach. 532 f. SayRel. Bab 112 ff. (compare Palmyrene proper name ברנבו נבוזבד,‎ VogPalm. No. 73), and this perhaps √ nabû, call, name, see נבא‎); — Babylonian god נְבוֺ קֹרֵם בֵּל כָּרַע46:1.