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נֵעָה

Neah

BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Neah’ fuller range ↓

H5269 Strong's Hebrew
Nêʻâh Transliteration
/nay-aw'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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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.

“Neah” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name נעה (Nêʻâh). With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Joshua, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Joshua 19:13. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
Neah
Modern gloss
Neah
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H5269 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 →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Joshua 19:13
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Joshua 19:13.
#6,101
by frequency
Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 1 · 100%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 0 · 0%

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 1 distinct verse.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%

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: Neah 1×
  • American Standard Version: Stretcheth unto neah 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Around toward neah 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Neah 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H5269 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Neah” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H5269 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Stretcheth unto neah” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H5269 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Around toward neah” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H5269 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Neah” 1×

Senses in BDB

The 2 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.

  1. Neah = "shaking"
  2. a boundary mark of the territory of Zebulun; site unknown

Word origin

Derived from נוע (nûwaʻ) (H5128) — to shake.

Part of speech: Proper Name Location


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.

נָעֶה

  • m. = נָאֶה; pl. נָעִים, v. נָאֶה

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.


Same root — word family

Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5269, 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

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.


Bible dictionary

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Neah). 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

Shaking, or settlement, or descent, a town on the east side of Zebulun, not far from Rimmon (Josh. 19:13).

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

(shaking) a place which was one of the landmarks on the boundary of Zebulun. (Joshua 19:13) only. It has not yet been certainly identified.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869

moved; moving

Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.


Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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