Word

נֶגֶב

negeb · H5045 · Hebrew · 110 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 places

Negebfirst named in Genesis 12:937 verses
Southfirst named in Zechariah 7:73 verses

Meanings

Negeb, Negev

An area of land located in the south of Israel, consisting of little vegetation and with very little annual rainfall; inhabited by numerous peoples - initially by the Canaanites in Arad and the Amelekites, later, the people of Judah

Examples
Genesis 12:9 Then Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.
Genesis 13:1 So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.
Genesis 13:3 And he went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
south, southerly, southward, southern

A reference to the direction to the right of a person facing the sunrise, which is the direction of the Negev desert

Examples
Genesis 13:14 The LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now raise your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward, and eastward and westward;
Genesis 28:14 “Your descendants will also be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, and to the north and to the south; and in you and in your descendants shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Exodus 26:18 “You shall make the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side.

How it’s used In 6 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

9 occurrences in 8 groups

יְהוּדָהJudah 2
יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִםJerusalem 1
יְרַחְמְאֵלִיJerahmeelite 1
כָּלֵבCaleb 1
כִּנְּרוֹתChinnereth 1
כְּרֵתִיCherethite 1

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 3 groups

אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 2
יַעַרforest, thickets, woods 1
עֲרָבָהplain, Arabah, desert 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יָרַשׁto possess, to drive out, to inherit 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

אֶחָדone 1
אַרְבַּעfour 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

36 occurrences in 6 groups

מִןfrom 22
בin/on/with 15
אֵלto, toward 5
עַלon, upon, over, against 3
אֵצֶלbeside 1
לto/for 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

38 occurrences in 9 groups

פֵּאָהside 11
מֶלֶךְking 8
עִירcity, town 5
אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 5
גְּבוּלborder, territory 4
Other words · 4 groups that occur once or twice (5) 5

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Contrasting words 1 word

צָפוֹן tsâphôwn · H6828 · north, northern, northerly: The direct lexical opposite of נֶגֶב (south), denoting the cardinal direction north.

In the other Testament 2 words

νότος nótos · G3558 · south, south wind: Greek νότος (nótos, G3558) serves as the standard LXX rendering of Hebrew נֶגֶב (negeb, H5045) for directional 'south' and 'southern region,' both denoting the cardinal direction and the geographical territory lying in that direction.
λίψ líps · G3047 · southwest: Greek λίψ specifically denotes the southwest wind and by extension the southwest quarter, whereas Hebrew נֶגֶב broadly denotes the south as a cardinal direction, the southern region (especially the Negev desert), or the south side of a structure; the equivalence holds where Greek uses the meteorological term for southerly orientation.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Names of Locations003001010: נֶגֶב, "the Negev," names the arid southern region of the land of Canaan/Judah, the territory Abram journeys toward (Genesis 12:9) and the Israelite spies scout (Numbers 13:17, 22), functioning as a geographic place/region name.
Spatial Referents003002005: The word also functions generally as a directional term meaning "south" or "southward," as in descriptions of a boundary or side of a structure facing that direction, tying the word to spatial orientation rather than the specific named region.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5045. negeb נֶ֫גֶב noun [masculine]] south-country, Negeb, south (compare LagBN 78); —…

H5045. negeb
נֶ֫גֶב noun [masculine]] south-country, Negeb, south (compare LagBN 78); — ׳נ absolute Gen 20:1 +; construct Jos 11:2 +; נֶ֫גְבָּה Gen 13:14 +; —
1 south-country, i.e.
a. specifically the region south of Judah, boundaries not exactly defined (see cities in it Jos 15:21-32), but with from hills south of Hebron to Kadesh, הַנּ ׳אֶרֶץ Gen 20:1 (E), Gen 24:62 (J), Num 13:29 (JE), Jdg 1:15; Jos 15:19; almost = proper name הַנֶּ֫גְבָּה ׳הַנּ,, Gen 12:9; Gen 13:1; Num 13:17, Num 13:22; Num 21:1 (all J), Deu 34:3 (JE), Deu 1:7; Jos 10:40; Jos 11:16; Jos 12:8 (all D), Num 33:40; Jos 15:21 (both P), Jdg 1:9; 1Sa 20:41 (but read הָאַרְגָּב, i.e. the mound ᵐ5 (ἀργαβ) Th We Klo Dr Kit Bu HPS), Jer 13:19; Jer 17:26; Jer 32:44; Jer 33:13; Zec 7:7; Obadiah 20; Psa 126:4 (simile), Eze 21:3a (= Judah); ׳נ (no article) Gen 13:3 (J), 1Sa 30:1; Isa 30:6 (compare Di); of particular districts in the Negeb: ׳נ עֲרָד Jdg 1:16 (compare GFM), ׳נ יהוּדָה etc. 1Sa 27:10 (3 t. in verse) (compare Dr), 1Sa 30:14 (twice in verse); 2Sa 24:7; 2Ch 28:18; see also Zec 14:10; נ ׳רָמַת Jos 19:8, נ ׳רָמוֺת 1Sa 30:27; collective with plural verb = people of south-land Obadiah 19..
b. land south of Babylon Isa 21:1 (compare Di).
c. = Egypt Dan 11:5-6, Dan 11:9, Dan 11:14, Dan 11:15, Dan 11:25 (twice in verse); Dan 11:29, Dan 11:40 (see Meinh Bev Behrm, compare Dan 11:43).
2 hence south (opposed to north, east, west) Gen 13:14; Gen 28:14 (both J), Jos 17:10 (P), 1Ki 7:25 2Ch 4:4; 1Ch 9:24; 1Ch 26:15, 1Ch 26:17 (compare 1Ch 26:14; 1Ch 26:16; 1Ch 26:18), Eze 21:3b; Eze 21:9; Dan 8:4, Dan 8:9, further 1Ki 7:39; Zec 14:4; תֵּימָ֫נָה נֶ֫גְבָּה מְּאַת Exo 26:18, compare Exo 27:9; Exo 36:23; Exo 38:9; Exo 40:24 (of south side of tabernacle); נ ׳שַׁ֫עַר Eze 46:9 (twice in verse); נ ׳מְּאַת south side or border Num 34:3; Num 35:5; Jos 18:15 (all P), Eze 47:19, cf Eze 47:19; Eze 48:16, Eze 48:28, Eze 48:33; נ ׳גְּבוּל south boundary Num 34:3; Jos 15:2, Jos 15:4; Jos 18:19 (all P), compare לְ מִנֶּ֫גֶב (הַגְּבוּל) on the south of Num 34:4 (twice in verse); Jos 15:3 (׳אֶלמִֿנּ לְ), Jos 15:3; Jos 15:7; Jos 18:3 (all P), Jdg 21:19; ׳מִנּ absolute on the south Jos 18:5 (JE), Jos 19:34 (P), 1Sa 14:5; Eze 40:2; מִנּ הַיְבוּסִי ׳כֶּ֫תֶף Jos 15:8, compare Jos 18:13, Jos 18:16 (all P); נֶ֫גְבָּה Jos 15:1-2, Jos 18:14 (twice in verse); Jos 18:19 (all P), 2Ch 4:10; Eze 21:2 (Co; HCT נגב) Eze 48:10, Eze 48:17; לְ נֶ֫גְבָּה Jos 17:9 (P). — For ׳נ בִּנְּרוֺת Jos 11:2 read נֶגֶד (ᵐ5 Di).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Names of Locations39 occurrences Spatial Referents71 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0