נְבָיוֹת
Nebaioth
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H5032 appears — 5 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 3 verses
- Genesis 25:13 נְבָיֹ֔ת n Proper These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to the order of their birth: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, then Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,
- Genesis 28:9 נְבָי֛וֹת n Proper Esau went to Ishmael, and took, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth, to be his wife.
- Genesis 36:3 נְבָיֽוֹת n Proper and Basemath, Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
נביות (Nᵉbâyôwth) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Nebaioth.” A scarce word — 5 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Genesis, which alone accounts for 60% of its uses. It first appears in Genesis 25:13. For the data behind this summary, explore 5-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5032 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 3 verses 60%
- 1 Chronicles 1 verse 20%
- Isaiah 1 verse 20%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 60%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 20%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 20%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Nebajoth 3×, Nebaioth 2×
- American Standard Version: Nebaioth 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Nebaioth 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Nebaioth 3×, Was nebaioth 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5032 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5032 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5032 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5032 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Nebaioth or Nebajoth = "heights"
- a son of Ishmael
- people descended from 1 called the Nabateans with their capital at Petra
Word origin
n.pr.gent. (Nab. נבטו = Nabataean and Nabataeans, EutNab 1, 4 and often, cf. נבט of Jewish trad. NöZMG xxv. 1871, 124, נבט 𝔗 Is 60:7 (on form of name, and on ט = ת cf. LagBN 51 f.); in Assyrian Nabaitai, etc., SchrCOT Gn 25:13;KGF 99 ff. DlPar 296 f.);—as (eldest) son of Ishmael (brother of Kedar) Gn 25:13; 28:9; 36:3 (all P), 1 Ch 1:29; people (‖ Kedar) Is 60:7, cf. Nabataei + Cedrei PlinNH v. 11, 65; 𝔊 Ναβαιωθ; Gk. Ναβαταῖοι.—See further NöZMG xxv. 1871, 122f. EutNab p. 78 GASmGeogr. 547–629 pass.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נוב (nûwb) (H5107) — to bear fruit.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
נְבָיוֹת
- (b. h.) pr. n. Nebayoth, an Arabic settlement, v. נְבָט II. Targ. Is. LX, 7 (v. נְבָט II).—B. Kam. 92ᵃ אפי׳ הכיא כל אילי נ׳ וכ׳ even if he offers all the rams of N., he will not be forgiven until &c.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H5032 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| נְבָי֔וֹת | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 1:29 | 1 |
| נְבָי֖וֹת | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 60:7 | 1 |
| נְבָי֛וֹת | Noun, Proper | Genesis 28:9 | 1 |
| נְבָיֹ֔ת | Noun, Proper | Genesis 25:13 | 1 |
| נְבָיֽוֹת | Noun, Proper | Genesis 36:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5032, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Nebaioth). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Height. (1.) Ishmael's eldest son (Gen. 25:13), and the prince of an Israelitish tribe (16). He had a sister, Mahalath, who was one of Esau's wives (Gen. 28:9; 36:3).
(2.) The name of the Ishmaelite tribe descended from the above (Gen. 25:13, 18). The "rams of Nebaioth" (Isa. 60:7) are the gifts which these wandering tribes of the desert would consecrate to God.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
words; prophecies; buds
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
