Places of the Bible
Negeb
Region
What happened here
- Abraham enters Canaan · 1920 BC
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Negeb, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Abraham and Lot Separate · 1919 BC · 2 verses
- Death of Moses · 1451 BC · 1 verse
- War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 3 verses
- Reign of Saul · 1094 BC · 4 verses
- Reign of David · 1054 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 2 verses
- Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 4 verses
- Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 2 verses
- Prophecies of Obadiah · 584 BC · 2 verses
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Heb. Negeb, that arid district to the south of Palestine through which lay the caravan route from Central Palestine to Egypt (Gen. 12:9; 13:1, 3; 46:1-6). “The Negeb comprised a considerable but irregularly-shaped tract of country, its main portion stretching from the mountains and lowlands of Judah in the north to the mountains of Azazemeh in the south, and from the Dead Sea and southern Ghoron the east to the Mediterranean on the west.” In Ezek. 20:46 (21:1 in Heb.) three different Hebrew words are all rendered “south.” (1) “Set thy face toward the south” (Teman, the region on the right, 1 Sam. 33:24); (2) “Drop thy word toward the south” (Negeb, the region of dryness, Josh. 15:4); (3) “Prophesy against the forest of the south field” (Darom, the region of brightness, Deut. 33:23). In Job 37:9 the word “south” is literally “chamber,” used here in the sense of treasury (comp. 38:22; Ps. 135:7). This verse is rendered in the Revised Version “out of the chamber of the south.”
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 36 verses
- Genesis
- 12:9, 13:1, 13:3, 20:1, 24:62
- Numbers
- 13:17, 13:22, 13:29, 21:1, 33:40
- Deuteronomy
- 1:7, 34:3
- Joshua
- 10:40, 11:16, 12:8, 15:19, 19:8
- Judges
- 1:9, 1:15, 1:16
- 1 Samuel
- 27:10, 30:1, 30:14, 30:27
- 2 Samuel
- 24:7
- 2 Chronicles
- 28:18
- Isaiah
- 21:1, 30:6
- Jeremiah
- 13:19, 17:26, 32:44, 33:13
- Ezekiel
- 20:46, 20:47
- Obadiah
- 1:19, 1:20
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.