- NOBLEMAN (Gr. basilikos, i.e., “king’s man”), an officer of state (John
4:49) in the service of Herod Antipas. He is supposed to have been the
Chuza, Herod’s steward, whose wife was one of those women who
“ministered unto the Lord of their substance” (Luke 8:3). This officer came
to Jesus at Cana and besought him to go down to Capernaum and heal his
son, who lay there at the point of death. Our Lord sent him away with the
joyful assurance that his son was alive. - NOD exile; wandering; unrest, a name given to the country to which Cain
fled (Genesis 4:16). It lay on the east of Eden. - NODAB noble, probably a tribe descended from one of the sons of
Ishmael, with whom the trans-Jordanic tribes made war (1 Chr.5:19). - NOGAH splendour, one of David’s sons, born at Jerusalem (1 Chronicles
3:7). - NOPH the Hebrew name of an Egyptian city (Isaiah 19:13; Jeremiah
2:16; 44:1; 46:14, 19; Ezekiel 30:13, 16). In Hos. 9:6 the Hebrew name is
Moph, and is translated “Memphis,” which is its Greek and Latin form. It
was one of the most ancient and important cities of Egypt, and stood a
little to the south of the modern Cairo, on the western bank of the Nile. It
was the capital of Lower Egypt. Among the ruins found at this place is a
colossal statue of Rameses the Great. (See MEMPHIS.) - NOPHAH blast, a city of Moab which was occupied by the Amorites
(Numbers 21:30). - NORTH COUNTRY a general name for the countries that lay north of
Palestine. Most of the invading armies entered Palestine from the north
(Isaiah 41:25; Jeremiah 1:14,15; 50:3,9,41; 51:48; Ezekiel 26:7). - NORTHWARD (Hebrews tsaphon), a “hidden” or “dark place,” as
opposed to the sunny south (Deuteronomy 3:27). A Hebrew in speaking
of the points of the compass was considered as always having his face to
the east, and hence “the left hand” (Genesis 14:15; Job 23:9) denotes the
north. The “kingdoms of the north” are Chaldea, Assyria, Media, etc. - NOSE-JEWELS Only mentioned in Isaiah 3:21, although refered to in
Genesis 24:47, Proverbs 11:22, Hos. 2:13. They were among the most
valued of ancient female ornaments. They “were made of ivory or metal,
and occasionally jewelled. They were more than an inch in diameter, and
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