Nibshan
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Nibshan: NET AVS NIV NRSV NASB TEV
prophecy; growing of a tooth
a town in the desert of Judah
NET Glossary: Array
a town in the desert of Judah
NET Glossary: Array
Hebrew
Strongs #05044: Nvbn Nibshan
Nibshan = "soft soil"1) one of the 6 cities of Judah which were in the wilderness
5044 Nibshan nib-shawn'
of uncertain derivation; Nibshan, a place in Palestine: KJV -- Nibshan.Nibshan [nave]
NIBSHAN, a city of Judah, Josh. 15:62.Nibshan [ebd]
fertile; light soil, a city somewhere "in the wilderness" of Judah (Josh. 15:62), probably near Engedi.
NIBSHAN [smith]
(soft soil) one of the six cities of Judah, (Joshua 15:62) which were in the district of the Midbar (Authorized Version "wilderness").NIBSHAN [isbe]
NIBSHAN - nib'-shan (ha-nibhshan; Codex Vaticanus Naphlazon; Codex Alexandrinus Nebsan): A city in the Judean wilderness named between Secacah and the City of Salt (Josh 15:62). Eusebius, Onomasticon, knows the place but gives no clue to its identification. The site has not been recovered. Wellhausen suggests the emendation of nibhshan to kibhshan, "furnace" (Proleg. 2, 344).
