- NECK used sometimes figuratively. To “lay down the neck” (Romans
16:4) is to hazard one’s life. Threatenings of coming judgments are
represented by the prophets by their laying bands upon the people’s
necks (Deuteronomy 28:48; Isaiah 10:27; Jeremiah 27:2). Conquerors put
their feet on the necks of their enemies as a sign of their subjection (Joshua
10:24; 2 Samuel 22:41). - NECROMANCER (Deuteronomy 15:11), i.e., “one who interrogates the
dead,” as the word literally means, with the view of discovering the secrets
of futurity (comp. 1 Samuel 28:7). (See DIVINATION.) - NEDABIAH moved of Jehovah, one of the sons of Jeconiah (1 Chronicles
3:18). - NEEDLE used only in the proverb, “to pass through a needle’s eye”
(Matthew 19:24; Mark 10:25; Luke 18:25). Some interpret the expression
as referring to the side gate, close to the principal gate, usually called the
“eye of a needle” in the East; but it is rather to be taken literally. The
Hebrew females were skilled in the use of the needle (Exodus 28:39; 26:36;
Judges 5:30). - NEGINAH in the title of Psalm 61, denotes the music of stringed
instruments (1 Samuel 16:16; Isaiah 38:20). It is the singular form of
Neginoth. - NEGINOTH i.e., songs with instrumental accompaniment, found in the
titles of Psalm 4; 6; 54; 55; 67; 76; rendered “stringed instruments,”
Habakkuk 3:19, A.V. It denotes all kinds of stringed instruments, as the
“harp,” “psaltery,” “viol,” etc. The “chief musician on Neginoth” is the
leader of that part of the temple choir which played on stringed
instruments. - NEHELAMITE the name given to a false prophet Shemaiah, who went
with the captives to Babylon (Jeremiah 29:24, 31, 32). The origin of the
name is unknown. It is rendered in the marg, “dreamer.” - NEHEMIAH comforted by Jehovah. (1.) Ezra 2:2; Nehemiah 7:7. (2.)
Nehemiah 3:16.
(3.) The son of Hachaliah (Nehemiah 1:1), and probably of the tribe of
Judah. His family must have belonged to Jerusalem (Nehemiah 2:3). He
was one of the “Jews of the dispersion,” and in his youth was appointed