Strong H5045H5045Hנֶ֫גֶב

south

One of the 2 senses of Strong H5045

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

Definition

STEP sense: south

Origin: from an unused root meaning to be parched;

Meaning: the south (from its drought); specifically, the Negeb or southern district of Judah, occasionally, Egypt (as south to Palestine)

Traditional usage: south (country, side, -ward).

STEP relation: a Meaning of H5045G

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 H5045H appears in 59 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • south43
  • southward13
  • side4
  • be1
  • thereof1
  • unto1

First verses

  1. Genesis 13:14
    And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
  2. Genesis 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.
  3. Exodus 26:18
    And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
  4. Exodus 27:9
    And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
  5. Exodus 36:23
    And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
  6. Exodus 38:9
    And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
  7. Exodus 40:24
    And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
  8. Numbers 34:3
    Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:
  9. Numbers 34:4
    And your border shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim, and pass on to Zin: and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh–barnea, and shall go on to Hazar–addar, and pass on to Azmon:
  10. Numbers 35:5
    And ye shall measure from without the city on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits; and the city shall be in the midst: this shall be to them the suburbs of the cities.
  11. Joshua 11:2
    And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,
  12. Joshua 15:1
    This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.
  13. Joshua 15:2
    And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
  14. Joshua 15:3
    And it went out to the south side to Maaleh–acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh–barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
  15. Joshua 15:4
    From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.
  16. Joshua 15:7
    And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of En–shemesh, and the goings out thereof were at En–rogel:
  17. Joshua 15:8
    And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
  18. Joshua 17:9
    And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea:
  19. Joshua 17:10
    Southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.
  20. Joshua 18:5
    And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.
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