Strong H5045H5045Gנֶ֫גֶב

Negeb

One of the 2 senses of Strong H5045

Transliteration
negeb
Pronunciation
neh'-gheb
Morphology
Proper Name of a Location with no gender

Definition

The Negeb, meaning "south," refers to the semi-arid region in the southern part of Israel.

General definition

From an unused root meaning to be parched; the south (from its drought); specifically the negeb or southern district of {Judah} occasionally6
Egypt (as south to Palestine): - south ({country} {side} -ward).

In the biblical story

Negeb

The southern region of Israel, a semi-arid area

The Negeb, meaning "south," refers to the semi-arid region in the southern part of Israel.

In the Bible

Strong H5045G appears in 39 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • south34
  • country2
  • southward2
  • thence1

First verses

  1. Genesis 12:9
    And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
  2. Genesis 13:1
    And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
  3. Genesis 13:3
    And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth–el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth–el and Hai;
  4. Genesis 20:1
    And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.
  5. Genesis 24:62
    And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai–roi; for he dwelt in the south country.
  6. Numbers 13:17
    And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain:
  7. Numbers 13:22
    And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
  8. Numbers 13:29
    The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.
  9. Numbers 21:1
    And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.
  10. Numbers 33:40
    And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
  11. Deuteronomy 1:7
    Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
  12. Deuteronomy 34:3
    And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
  13. Joshua 10:40
    So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.
  14. Joshua 11:16
    So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;
  15. Joshua 12:8
    In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
  16. Joshua 15:19
    Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.
  17. Joshua 15:21
    And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
  18. Joshua 19:8
    And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath–beer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
  19. Judges 1:9
    And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley.
  20. Judges 1:15
    And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
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