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Meaning: that barks or yelps · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Nobah was the renamed form of Kenath after its capture by the conqueror of that name. It is important because it preserves the biblical practice of conquest memorialized through renaming. First appears in Num 32:42.1
AI summary: Nobah matters because it shows how victory could be stamped onto the land through a new name. The references keep alive both the act of capture and the attempt to preserve the conqueror's identity in geography. The cross references present Nobah as a renamed eastern stronghold of conquest-memory.1
The name given to Kenath (q.v.) by Nobah when he conquered it. It was on the east of Gilead (Judg. 8:11). 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.