Negeb

He "journeys" (literally: "pulls up") to go from thence toward the region called the Negeb, or the South Country; cf. Ge 12: 9.

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

"Negeb" is the region of Palestine that lies south of Hebron.

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

For the date of the many ruins which stud the country, I will assume empirically that their destruction is coeval with that of the Christian Churches in Negeb, or the South Country,86 that adjoins Midian Proper on the north-west.

The Land of Midian 2003

The great Lawgiver probably led his horde of fugitive slaves over the plains of El – Negeb and El – Tih, north of the so-called Sinaitic mountain-blocks, marching in small divisions like those of a modern Bedawi tribe; and we know from the latest surveys that the land, now alternately a fiery or frozen wilderness, was once well supplied with wood and water.

The Land of Midian 2003

The biblical narrative recounts how the Canaanite king of Arad, “who dwelt in the Negeb,” attacked the Israelites and took some of them captive—enraging them to the point that they appealed for divine assistance to destroy all the Canaanite cities Numbers21:1–3.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

The biblical narrative recounts how the Canaanite king of Arad, “who dwelt in the Negeb,” attacked the Israelites and took some of them captive—enraging them to the point that they appealed for divine assistance to destroy all the Canaanite cities Numbers21:1–3.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

The biblical narrative recounts how the Canaanite king of Arad, “who dwelt in the Negeb,” attacked the Israelites and took some of them captive—enraging them to the point that they appealed for divine assistance to destroy all the Canaanite cities Numbers21:1–3.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

The biblical narrative recounts how the Canaanite king of Arad, “who dwelt in the Negeb,” attacked the Israelites and took some of them captive—enraging them to the point that they appealed for divine assistance to destroy all the Canaanite cities Numbers21:1–3.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

_Negeb_, or south, (see in the verses referred to above,) or as others were designated the hill country, or the desert, or Phoenicia.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

(Negeb) and dwelt between Kadesh and Shur; he also sojourned in Gerar.

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942