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title: נְבוֹ — Nebo · The Tanakh dictionary
description: נְבוֹ (lemma:נְבוֹ), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 12 times: Nebo. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# נְבוֹ

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«נְבוֹ» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Nebo** — 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:** 12 times · **Key:** lemma:נְבוֹ · **BDB:** נְבוֹ

### Glosses

Nebo (7); of.Nebo (5)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Nebo [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5b9/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5b9/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (prob. connex., at least for 2, with (Bab.) god Nebo, Nabû, cf. ii. נְבוֹ and BaeRel. 15, 89, 259; yet not certain, NöZMG xiii. 1888, 470 comp. Arabic النَبَاوَةُ the height, etc.): 𝔊 Ναβαυ;— city in Moab Nu 32:3, 38 (where assigned to Reuben; both JE = נבה MI 14) Is 15:2 Je 48:1, 22 1 Ch 5:8; prob. on or near Mt. Nebo (v. infr.), cf. BuhlGeogr. 266 f. TristrMoab 338. city in Judah, בְּנֵי נ׳ Ezr 2:29 = אַנְשֵׁי נ׳ אַחֵר Ne 7:34 (the men of the other N., so disting.—si. אחר vera l, cf. Ryle—from a? or from another נֹב?), Ezr 10:43;—this נבו in Judah perhaps = נֹב 1 q.v. mt. in Moab, where Moses dies Nu 33:47 Dt 32:49 (הַר־נְבוֹ), 34:1 (id.; all P), six miles W. of Heshbon according to Onom. (ed. Lag283). Prob. = mod. Nebâ at NE. corner of Dead Sea, SurveyE. Pal. i. 198 ff. GASmGeogr. 562 ff. BuhlGeogr. 266 f. TristrMoab 318, 338 MerrillE. of Jordan, 242 ff.—Cf. פִּסְגָּה.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «נְבוֹ» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/lemma_3a_5e0_5b0_5d1_5d5_5b9/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezra 2:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.29/)

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בְּנֵ֥י נְב֖וֹ חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Nebo fifty and two

*JPS 1917:* The children of Nebo, fifty and two.

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[Nehemiah 7:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.33/)

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אַנְשֵׁ֥י נְב֛וֹ אַחֵ֖ר חֲמִשִּׁ֥ים וּשְׁנָֽיִם׃ס

*Word for word:* the.men of.Nebo \[the\].other fifty and two

*JPS 1917:* The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.

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