negeb

The Heb. negeb is the general designation for south or south-west of Judah.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

A palm branch, or a thorn bush, a town in the south (the negeb) of Judah (Josh. 15: 31); called also Hazarsusah (19: 5), or

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

The south also was _negeb_, the desert, since the desert shut in Palestine to the south, as the sea to the west.

The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889

The south (Heb. negeb), the undulating pasture-ground between the hills and the desert to the south (Josh.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897