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Lexicon :: Strong's H5045 - neḡeḇ

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נֶגֶב
Transliteration
neḡeḇ
Pronunciation
neh'-gheb
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From an unused root meaning to be parched
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TWOT Reference: 1288a

Strong’s Definitions

נֶגֶב negeb, 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).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 112x

The KJV translates Strong's H5045 in the following manner: south (89x), southward (16x), south side (5x), south country (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 112x
The KJV translates Strong's H5045 in the following manner: south (89x), southward (16x), south side (5x), south country (2x).

  1. south-country, Nekeb, south

    1. south-country

      1. region of southern Judah, boundaries not specific

    2. south

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
נֶגֶב negeb, 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).
STRONGS H5045: Abbreviations
† נֶ֫גֶב noun [masculine]] south-country, Negeb, south (compare LagBN 78); — נ׳ absolute Genesis 20:1 +; construct Joshua 11:2 +; נֶ֫גְבָּה Genesis 13:14 +; —
1. south-country, i.e.
a. specifically the region south of Judah, boundaries not exactly defined (see cities in it Joshua 15:21-32), but with from hills south of Hebron to Kadesh, אֶרֶץ הַנּ׳ Genesis 20:1 (E), Genesis 24:62 (J), Numbers 13:29 (JE), Judges 1:15; Joshua 15:19; almost = proper name הַנּ׳, הַנֶּ֫גְבָּה, Genesis 12:9; Genesis 13:1; Numbers 13:17, 22; Numbers 21:1 (all J), Deuteronomy 34:3 (JE), Deuteronomy 1:7; Joshua 10:40; Joshua 11:16; Joshua 12:8 (all D), Numbers 33:40; Joshua 15:21 (both P), Judges 1:9; 1 Samuel 20:41 (but read הָאַרְגָּב, i.e. the mound Greek Version of the LXX (ἀργαβ) Th We Klo Dr Kit Bu HPS), Jeremiah 13:19; Jeremiah 17:26; Jeremiah 32:44; Jeremiah 33:13; Zechariah 7:7; Obadiah 20; Psalm 126:4 (simile), Ezekiel 21:3a (= Judah); נ׳ (no article) Genesis 13:3 (J), 1 Samuel 30:1; Isaiah 30:6 (compare Di); of particular districts in the Negeb: עֲרָד נ׳ Judges 1:16 (compare GFM), יהוּדָה נ׳ etc. 1 Samuel 27:10 (3 times in verse) (compare Dr), 1 Samuel 30:14 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 24:7; 2 Chronicles 28:18; see also Zechariah 14:10; רָמַת נ׳ Joshua 19:8, רָמוֺת נ׳ 1 Samuel 30:27; collective with plural verb = people of south-land Obadiah 19.
b. land south of Babylon Isaiah 21:1 (compare Di).
c. = Egypt Daniel 11:5, 6, 9, 14, 15, 25 (twice in verse); Daniel 11:29, 40 (see Meinh Bev Behrm, compare Daniel 11:43).
2. hence south (opposed to north, east, west) Genesis 13:14; Genesis 28:14 (both J), Joshua 17:10 (P), 1 Kings 7:25 2 Chronicles 4:4; 1 Chronicles 9:24; 1 Chronicles 26:15, 17 (compare 1 Chronicles 26:14; 1 Chronicles 26:16; 1 Chronicles 26:18), Ezekiel 21:3b; Ezekiel 21:9; Daniel 8:4, 9, further 1 Kings 7:39; Zechariah 14:4; מְּאַת נֶ֫גְבָּה תֵּימָ֫נָה Exodus 26:18, compare Exodus 27:9; Exodus 36:23; Exodus 38:9; Exodus 40:24 (of south side of tabernacle); שַׁ֫עַר נ׳ Ezekiel 46:9 (twice in verse); מְּאַת נ׳ south side or border Numbers 34:3; Numbers 35:5; Joshua 18:15 (all P), Ezekiel 47:19, cf Ezekiel 47:19; Ezekiel 48:16, 28, 33; גְּבוּל נ׳ south boundary Numbers 34:3; Joshua 15:2, 4; Joshua 18:19 (all P), compare מִנֶּ֫גֶב לְ (הַגְּבוּל) on the south of Numbers 34:4 (twice in verse); Joshua 15:3 (לְ אֶלמִֿנּ׳), Joshua 15:3; Joshua 15:7; Joshua 18:3 (all P), Judges 21:19; מִנּ׳ absolute on the south Joshua 18:5 (JE), Joshua 19:34 (P), 1 Samuel 14:5; Ezekiel 40:2; כֶּ֫תֶף הַיְבוּסִי מִנּ׳ Joshua 15:8, compare Joshua 18:13, 16 (all P); נֶ֫גְבָּה Joshua 15:1, 2; Joshua 18:14 (twice in verse); Joshua 18:19 (all P), 2 Chronicles 4:10; Ezekiel 21:2 (Co; HCT נגב) Ezekiel 48:10, 17; נֶ֫גְבָּה לְ Joshua 17:9 (P). — For בִּנְּרוֺת נ׳ Joshua 11:2 read נֶגֶד (Greek Version of the LXX Di).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

12:9; 13:1; 13:3; 13:14; 13:14; 20:1; 20:1; 24:62; 28:14

Exodus

26:18; 27:9; 36:23; 38:9; 40:24

Numbers

13:17; 13:22; 13:29; 21:1; 33:40; 34:3; 34:3; 34:4; 35:5

Deuteronomy

1:7; 34:3

Joshua

10:40; 11:2; 11:2; 11:16; 12:8; 15:1; 15:2; 15:2; 15:3; 15:3; 15:4; 15:7; 15:8; 15:19; 15:21; 15:21; 15:22; 15:23; 15:24; 15:25; 15:26; 15:27; 15:28; 15:29; 15:30; 15:31; 15:32; 17:9; 17:10; 18:3; 18:5; 18:13; 18:14; 18:15; 18:16; 18:19; 18:19; 19:8; 19:34

Judges

1:9; 1:15; 1:16; 21:19

1 Samuel

14:5; 20:41; 27:10; 30:1; 30:14; 30:27

2 Samuel

24:7

1 Kings

7:25; 7:39

1 Chronicles

9:24; 26:14; 26:15; 26:16; 26:17; 26:18

2 Chronicles

4:4; 4:10; 28:18

Psalms

126:4

Isaiah

21:1; 30:6

Jeremiah

13:19; 17:26; 32:44; 33:13

Ezekiel

21:2; 21:3; 21:3; 21:9; 40:2; 46:9; 47:19; 47:19; 48:10; 48:16; 48:17; 48:28; 48:33

Daniel

8:4; 8:9; 11:5; 11:6; 11:9; 11:14; 11:15; 11:25; 11:29; 11:40; 11:43

Obadiah

1:19; 1:20

Zechariah

7:7; 14:4; 14:10

H5045

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Strong's Number H5045 matches the Hebrew נֶגֶב (neḡeḇ),
which occurs 111 times in 97 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 12:9–1Sa 20:41)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:9 - And Abram moved onward, going on still toward the south.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, towards the south.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - And he went on his journeys from the south as far as Bethel; as far as the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - And Jehovah said to Abram, after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - And Abraham departed thence towards the south country, and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned at Gerar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:62

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - And Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi; for he was dwelling in the south country.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad 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 be blessed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:18 - And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:9 - And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle. On the south side, southward, hangings for the court of twined byssus; a hundred cubits the length for the one side,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:23 - And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:9 - And he made the court. On the south side southward, the hangings of the court were of twined byssus, a hundred cubits;

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:24 - And he put the candlestick in the tent of meeting, opposite to the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:17 - And Moses sent them to search out the land of Canaan, and said to them, Go up this way by the south and go up into the hill-country,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:22 - And they went up by the south, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. Now Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:29 - Amalek dwells in the land of the south; and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill-country; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the side of the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:1 - And the Canaanite king of Arad, who dwelt in the south, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim, and he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:40 - And the Canaanite, the king of Arad who dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - Then your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside of Edom, and your southern border shall be from the end of the salt sea eastward;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:4 - and your border shall turn from the south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin, and shall end southward at Kadesh-barnea, and shall go on to Hazar-Addar, and pass on to Azmon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - And ye shall measure, without the city, the east side two thousand cubits, and the south side two thousand cubits, and the west side two thousand cubits, and the north side two thousand cubits, and the city shall be in the midst: they shall have this as suburbs of the cities.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all the neighbouring places in the plain, in the mountain, and in the lowland, and in the south, and by the seaside, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:3 - and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm-trees, to Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:40 - And Joshua smote the whole country, the mountain, and the south, and the lowland, and the hill-slopes, and all their kings: he let none remain, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Jehovah the God of Israel had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:2 - and to the kings that were northward in the mountains, and in the plain south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and on the upland of Dor on the west,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:16 - And Joshua took all that land, the mountain and all the south, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and its lowland;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8 - in the mountain, and in the lowland, and in the plain, and on the hill-slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the south: the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:1 - And the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was: to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin, southward, in the extreme south.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:2 - And their southern border was from the end of the salt sea, from the tongue that turns southward;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:3 - and it went out south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed on to Zin, and went up on the south of Kadesh-barnea, and passed to Hezron, and went up toward Addar, and turned toward Karkaah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:4 - and passed on to Azmon, and went out by the torrent of Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. That shall be your border southward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7 - and the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and turned northward to Gilgal, which is opposite to the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the torrent; and the border passed to the waters of En-shemesh, and ended at En-rogel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - and the border went up to the valley of the son of Hinnom, toward the south side of the Jebusite, that is, Jerusalem; and the border went up to the top of the mountain that is before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of Rephaim northward;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:19 - And she said, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a southern land; give me also springs of water. Then he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:21 - The cities at the extremity of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the border of Edom in the south, were: Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 - And the border descended to the torrent Kanah, south of the torrent. These cities were Ephraim's among the cities of Manasseh. And the territory of Manasseh was on the north side of the torrent, and ended at the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border. And they touched upon Asher on the north, and upon Issachar on the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:5 - And they shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall remain in their border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall remain in their border on the north;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:13 - and the border passed on from thence toward Luz, to the south side of Luz, which is Bethel: and the border went down to Ataroth-Addar, near the hill that is on the south of the lower Beth-horon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:14 - -- And the border reached along and turned on the west side, southward from the hill that is before Beth-horon southward; and ended at Kirjath-Baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this is the west side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:15 - -- And the south side was from the extreme end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16 - And the border went down to the end of the mountain that is before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim on the north, and went down the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite on the south, and went down to En-rogel;

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19 - and the border passed on to the side of Beth-hoglah on the north, and the border ended at the tongue of the salt sea northward, at the south end of the Jordan: this is the southern border.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:8 - and all the hamlets that are round these cities to Baalath-beer, that is Ramah of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:34 - and the border turned westwards to Aznoth-Tabor, and went out from thence to Hukkok, and reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah upon Jordan towards the sun-rising.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:9 - And afterwards the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the hill-country, and in the south, and in the lowland.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:15 - And she said to him, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a southern land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16 - And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had gone up out of the city of palm-trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt with the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 - And they said, Behold, there is a feast of Jehovah from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north side of Bethel, toward the sun-rising of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:5

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:5 - The one crag formed a pillar on the north opposite to Michmash, and the other on the south opposite to Geba.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:41

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41 - The lad went, and David arose from the side of the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times; and they kissed one another, and wept one with another, until David exceeded.

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