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title: נֹא — No. Compare · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נֹא (4996), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: No. Compare. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. No Thebes. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נֹא

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«נֹא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **No. Compare** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 4996 · **BDB:** נֹא

### Glosses

Thebes (3); of.Thebes (1); than.No (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

No. Compare [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/4996/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. No Thebes [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/4996/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. No = Thebes (Egyptian nt, city, i.e. prob. nē(t), v. SteindBAS i. 596 f.; Assyrian Ni-ʾu, Ni-iʾ DlPar 318 Steind l.c. SchrCOT gloss.; Tel Am. Nî (Ni-i) WklTel Am. 39 BezTel Am. in BM 153);—הִנְנִי פוֹקֵד אֶל־אָמוֹן מִנֹּא Je 46:25 Amon from (of, 𝔊 ἐν = בְּ) No; נֹא אָמוֹן Na 3:8 No of Amon (= city of god Ammon, = 𝔊 Διόσπολις Ez 30:14, 16 Steind l.c.; v. also Jerem. and BillerbeckBAS iii. 104 f.); Ez 30:14 (‖ פַּתְרוֹס, צֹ֫עַן), וְהִכְרַתִּי אֶת־הֲמוֹן נֹא v 15 (‖ סִין; but 𝔊 Co Berthol נֹף q.v. for נֹא) v 16 (‖ סִין, Co סון). It lay on the right bank of the Nile, c. 400 miles (by the river) S. of Memphis.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נֹא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/4996/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 30:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.15/)

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וְשָׁפַכְתִּ֣י חֲמָתִ֔י עַל־סִ֖ין מָע֣וֹז מִצְרָ֑יִם וְהִכְרַתִּ֖י אֶת־הֲמ֥וֹן נֹֽא׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.pour.out rage my on Sin the.stronghold of.Egypt and I.will.cut.off (et) the.multitude of.Thebes

*JPS 1917:* And I will pour My fury upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

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[Ezekiel 30:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.30.14/)

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וַהֲשִׁמֹּתִי֙ אֶת־פַּתְר֔וֹס וְנָתַ֥תִּי אֵ֖שׁ בְּצֹ֑עַן וְעָשִׂ֥יתִי שְׁפָטִ֖ים בְּנֹֽא׃

*Word for word:* and I.will.devastate (et) Pathros and I.will.put fire in Zoan and I.will.bring.about judgments on Thebes

*JPS 1917:* And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments in No.

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