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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 - Abram continually journeyed by stages down to the Negev.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:1 - So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 13:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:3 - And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 13:14 - After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, "Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:1 - Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident in Gerar,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:62

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:62 - Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:14 - Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west, east, north, and south. All the families of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using your name and that of your descendants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:18 - So you are to make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 27:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:9 - "You are to make the courtyard of the tabernacle. For the south side there are to be hangings for the courtyard of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long for one side,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 36:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:23 - So he made frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:9 - He made the courtyard. For the south side the hangings of the courtyard were of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 40:24

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:17 - When Moses sent them to investigate the land of Canaan, he told them, "Go up through the Negev, and then go up into the hill country

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:22 - When they went up through the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of Anak, were living. (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 - The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan."

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:1 - When the Canaanite king of Arad who lived in the Negev heard that Israel was approaching along the road to Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoner.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:40 - The king of Arad, the Canaanite king who lived in the south of the land of Canaan, heard about the approach of the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:3 - your southern border will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the Edomite border, and your southern border will run eastward to the extremity of the Salt Sea,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:4 - and then the border will turn from the south to the Scorpion Ascent, continue to Zin, and then its direction will be from the south to Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:5 - "You must measure from outside the wall of the town on the east 1,000 yards, and on the south side 1,000 yards, and on the west side 1,000 yards, and on the north side 1,000 yards, with the town in the middle. This territory must belong to them as grazing land for the towns.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - Get up now, resume your journey, heading for the Amorite hill country, to all its areas including the arid country, the highlands, the Shephelah, the Negev, and the coastal plain - all of Canaan and Lebanon as far as the Great River, that is, the Euphrates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:3 - the Negev, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of the date palm trees, as far as Zoar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:40

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:40 - Joshua defeated the whole land, including the hill country, the Negev, the lowlands, the slopes, and all their kings. He left no survivors. He annihilated everything that breathed, just as the LORD God of Israel had commanded.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:2 - and the northern kings who ruled in the hill country, the Arabah south of Kinnereth, the lowlands, and the heights of Dor to the west.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:16 - Joshua conquered the whole land, including the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the lowlands, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel and its lowlands,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:8 - including the hill country, the lowlands, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev - the land of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:1 - The land allotted to the tribe of Judah by its clans reached to the border of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin in the Negev far to the south.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:2 - Their southern border started at the southern tip of the Salt Sea,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:3 - extended south of the Scorpion Ascent, crossed to Zin, went up from the south to Kadesh Barnea, crossed to Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned toward Karka.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:4 - It then crossed to Azmon, extended to the Stream of Egypt, and ended at the sea. This was their southern border.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:7 - It then went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, turning northward to Gilgal (which is opposite the Pass of Adummim south of the valley), crossed to the waters of En Shemesh and extended to En Rogel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:8 - It then went up the Valley of Ben Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites on the south (that is, Jerusalem), going up to the top of the hill opposite the Valley of Ben Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of the Valley of the Rephaites to the north.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:19 - She answered, "Please give me a special present. Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water. So he gave her both upper and lower springs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 15:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 15:21 - These cities were located at the southern extremity of Judah's tribal land near the border of Edom: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:9 - The border then descended southward to the Valley of Kanah. Ephraim was assigned cities there among the cities of Manasseh, but the border of Manasseh was north of the valley and ended at the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 17:10 - Ephraim's territory was to the south, and Manasseh's to the north. The sea was Manasseh's western border and their territory touched Asher on the north and Issachar on the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:5 - Divide it into seven regions. Judah will stay in its territory in the south, and the family of Joseph in its territory in the north.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:13 - It then crossed from there to Luz, to the slope of Luz to the south (that is, Bethel), and descended to Ataroth Addar located on the hill that is south of lower Beth Horon.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:14 - It then turned on the west side southward from the hill near Beth Horon on the south and extended to Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a city belonging to the tribe of Judah. This is the western border.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:15 - The southern side started on the edge of Kiriath Jearim and extended westward to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:16 - The border then descended to the edge of the hill country near the Valley of Ben Hinnom located in the Valley of the Rephaites to the north. It descended through the Valley of Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites to the south and then down to En Rogel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 18:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 18:19 - It then crossed to the slope of Beth Hoglah to the north and ended at the northern tip of the Salt Sea at the mouth of the Jordan River. This was the southern border.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:8 - as well as all the towns around these cities as far as Baalath Beer (Ramah of the Negev). This was the land assigned to the tribe of Simeon by its clans.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 19:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 19:34 - It turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, extended from there to Hukok, touched Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west, and the Jordan on the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:9 - Later the men of Judah went down to attack the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev, and the lowlands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:15 - She answered, "Please give me a special present. Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water." So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:16 - Now the descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the City of Date Palm Trees to Arad in the desert of Judah, located in the Negev. They went and lived with the people of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:19 - However, there is an annual festival to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel (east of the main road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem) and south of Lebonah."

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:5 - The cliff to the north was closer to Micmash, the one to the south closer to Geba.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:41 - When the servant had left, David got up from beside the mound, knelt with his face to the ground, and bowed three times. Then they kissed each other and they both wept, especially David.

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