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# nob

«nob» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The name of a town near Jerusalem where priests lived…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

The name of a town near Jerusalem where priests lived, and where David came while he was running from Saul. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/nob/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here David received holy bread and Goliath's sword from the priest Ahimelech. Saul had the priests of Nob killed because of this. Interpretation: Tradition sees the killing of the priests of Nob as a terrible sin of Saul, and some commentators say it helped end his rule.

### examples

- This very day shall he halt at Nob, shaking his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. (Prophets ISA.10.32, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/nob/#x1)
- Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said unto him: 'Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?' (Prophets 1SA.21.2, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/nob/#x2)
- Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said: 'I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. (Prophets 1SA.22.9, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/nob/#x3)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.353/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nob» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/N/nob/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.