Bible Names N-Z

Obal in Easton's Bible Dictionary

stripped, the eight son of Joktan (Gen. 10:28); called also Ebal (1 Chr. 1:22)....

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Obadiah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(servant of the Lord), 1. A man whose sons are enumerated in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah. 1Ch 3:21 (B.C. 470.) 2. A descendant of Issachar and a chief man of his tribe. 1Ch 7:3 (B.C. 1014.) 3. One of the six sons of Azel, a descendant of Saul. 1Ch 8:33; 9:44 (B.C. 720.) 4. A Levite, son of Shemaiah, and descended from Jeduthun. 1Ch ...

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Obal in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

Joktan's son (Genesis 10:28). EBAL in 1 Chronicles 1:22. Bochart conjectures that the troglodyte Aralitae of eastern Africa represent Obal....

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Nobah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(barking), an Israelite warrior, Nu 32:42 who during the conquest of the territory on the east of Jordan possessed himself of the town of Kenath and the villages or hamlets dependent upon it, and gave them his own name. (B.C.1450.) For a certain period after the establishment of the Israelite rule the new name remained, Jud 8:11 but it is not ...

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Nogah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1 Chronicles 3:7; 1 Chronicles 14:6....

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Nymphas in Naves Topical Bible

-(A Christian of Laodicea) -House of, used as a place of worship Col 4:15...

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Nobah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

howling. (1.) Num. 32:42. (2.) The name given to Kenath (q.v.) by Nobah when he conquered it. It was on the east of Gilead (Judg. 8:11)....

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Nogah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

brightness; clearness...

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Nobah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. An Israelite of Manasseh the conqueror of Kenath and its dependent villages E. of Jordan (Numbers 32:42). 2. The town so named by Nobah instead of its former name, Kenath (Judges 8:11). The old name is revived in Kenawat in the Lejah or Trachonitis. But Ewald identified Nobah with Nawa on the Damascus road, 16 miles E. from the N. end of t...

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