NEARIAH
(servant of Jehovah).One of the six sons of Shemaiah in the line of the royal family of Judah after the captivity. (1 Chronicles 3:22,23) (B.C. about 350.)A son of Ishi, and one...
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Smith's Bible Dictionary, Dr. William Smith, 1884.
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NEBAI
(fruitful), a family of the heads of the people who signed the covenant with Nehemiah. (Nehemiah 10:19)
NEBAIOTH, NEBAJOTH
(heights), the "first-born of Ishmael," (Genesis 25:13; 1 Chronicles 1:29) (B.C. about 1850), and father of a pastoral tribe named after him, the "rams Of Nebaioth" being mentio...
NEBALLAT
(hidden folly), town of Benjamin, one of those which the Benjamites reoccupied after the captivity. (Nehemiah 11:34)
NEBAT
(aspect), the father of Jeroboam, (1 Kings 11:26; 12:2,15) etc., is described as an Ephrathite or Ephraimite of Zereda. (B.C. about 1000.)
NEBO
A town of Reuben on the east side of Jordan. (Numbers 32:3,38) In the remarkable prophecy adopted by Isaiah, (Isaiah 15:2) and Jeremiah, (Jeremiah 48:1,26) concerning Moab, Nebo...
NEBO
(prophet), Mount, the mountain from which Moses took his first and last view of the promised land. (32:41; 34:1) It is described as in the land of Moab, facing Jericho; the head...
NEBUCHADNEZZAR, OR NEBUCHADREZZAR
(may Nebo protect the crown), was the greatest and most powerful of the Babylonian kings. His name is explained to mean "Nebo is the protector against misfortune." He was the so...
NEBUSHASBAN
(Nebo saves me), one of the officers of Nebuchadnezzar at the time of the capture of Jerusalem. He was Rab-saris, i.e. a chief of the eunuchs. (Jeremiah 39:13) Nebushasban’s off...
NEBUZARADAN
(chief whom Nebo favors), the Rab-tabbachim i.e. chief of the slaughterers (Authorized Version "captain of the guard"), a high officer in the court of Nebuchadnezzar. On the cap...
NECHO
(lame). (2 Chronicles 35:20,22; 36:4) [PHARAOH-NECHO]
NEDABIAH
(whom Jehovah impels) apparently one of the sons of Jeconiah or Jehoiachin, king of Judah. (1 Chronicles 3:18)
NEGINAH
(stringed instruments), the singular of Neginoth. If occurs in the title of (Psalms 61:1) It is the general term by which all stringed instruments are described. "The chief musi...
NEGINOTH
[NEGINAH]
NEHELAMITE, THE
the designation of a man named Shemaiah, a false prophet, who went with the captivity to Babylon. (Jeremiah 29:24,31,32) The name is no doubt formed from that either of Shemaiah...
NEHEMIAH
(consolation of the Lord).Son of Hachaliah, and apparently of the tribe of Judah. All that we know certainly concerning him is contained in the book which bears his name. We fir...
NEHEMIAH, THE BOOK OF
like the preceding one of Ezra, is clearly and certainly not all by the same hand. [EZRA, BOOK OF, BOOK OF] By far the most important portion, indeed is the work of Nehemiah but...
NEHILOTH
The title of (Psalms 5:1) in the Authorized Version is rendered "To the chief musician upon Nehiloth." It is most likely that nehiloth is the general term for perforated wind-in...
NEHUM
(consolation), one of those who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 7:7)
NEHUSHTA
(brass), the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem, wife of Jehoiakim and mother of Jehoiachin, kings of Judah. (2 Kings 24:8) (B.C. 616.)
NEHUSHTAN
(a thing of brass), the name by which the brazen serpent made by Moses in the wilderness, (Numbers 21:9) was worshipped in the time of Hezekiah. (2 Kings 18:4) It is evident tha...
NEIEL
(moved by God), a place which formed one of the landmarks of the boundary of the tribe of Asher. (Joshua 19:27) only. It occurs between Jiphthahel and Cabul. If the former of th...
NEKEB
(cavern), one of the towns on the boundary of Naphtali. (Joshua 19:3) It lay between Adami and Jabneel. A great number of commentators have taken this name as being connected wi...
NEKODA
(distinguished).The descendants of Nekoda returned among the Nethinim after the captivity. (Ezra 2:48; Nehemiah 7:50)The sons of Nekoda were among those who went up after the ca...
NEMUEL
(day of God).A Reubenite, son of Eliab and eldest brother of Dathan and Abiram. (Numbers 26:9)The eldest son of Simeon, (Numbers 26:12; 1 Chronicles 4:24) from whom were descend...
NEPHEG
(sprout).One of the sons of Izhar the son of Kohath. (Esther 6:21)One of David’s sons born to him in Jerusalem. (2 Samuel 5:15; 1 Chronicles 3:7; 14:6)
NEPHISH
(refreshed), an inaccurate variation (found in (1 Chronicles 1:19) only) of the name Nephish.