Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Nophet A province in Zebulun and Manasseh. From Naph, that drops. Fuente: The Poor Mans Concordance and Dictionary to the Sacred Scriptures

Nophah (Heb. No’phach, ; the Samar. has the article, ; Sept. , v. r. . ; Vulg. Nophe), a place mentioned only in Num 21:30, in the remarkable song apparently composed by the Amorites after their conquest of Heshbon from the Moabites, and therefore of an earlier date than the Israelitish invasion. It is named … Continue reading “Nophah”

Nopha No’pha. (blast). A place mentioned only in Num 21:30, in the remarkable song, apparently, composed by the Amorites, after their conquest of Heshbon, from the Moabites, and therefore, of an earlier date than the Israelite invasion. It is named with Dibon and Medeba, and was, possibly, in the neighborhood of Heshbon. A name very … Continue reading “Nopha”

NOPH Sometimes called also, in Hebrew, MOPH, Hos 9:6, the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt. The ruins of it, though not to any great extent, are still found a few miles above Old Cairo, or Fostat, Isa 19:13 Jer 2:16 44:1 Eze 30:13,16 .Memphis was the residence of the ancient kings of Egypt till … Continue reading “Noph”

Nootkas, Or Ahts a family of tribes on Vancouver’s Island and the mainland near it, embracing the Ahts proper (of whom the Moouchaht are the tribe called Nootkas by captain Cook, and others since), on the western side of the island, numbering 3500; the Quackewlth, embracing sixteen or seventeen tribes, on the western and eastern … Continue reading “Nootkas, Or Ahts”

Noon, Noonday noon, noonda (, cohorayim; , mesembra): The word means light, splendor, brightness, and hence, the brightest part of the day (Gen 43:16, Gen 43:25; Act 22:6). See also MIDDAY; DAY AND NIGHT; TIME. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Noon-day Service the service in the early Church at mid-day, and in which, Basil says, the ninety-first Psalm was read. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Noon See Time. Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church Noon a rendering in Gen 43:16, and elsewhere, of , tsohora’yim, doublelight, i.e. either the dividing point between the growing and waning lights of morning and evening (Furst, s.v.), or the moment when light is double, and so brightest (Gesenius). By a natural metaphor, the word … Continue reading “Noon”

Nooma NOOMA (1Es 9:35) = Nebo in Ezr 10:42. Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible Nooma noo-ma (, Nooma, Codex Vaticanus , Ooma; the King James Version Ethma): 1 Esdras 9:35 = Nebo of Ezr 10:43, of which it is a corruption. Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Noology (from , mind, and , a word) is a term proposed to denote the science of intellectual facts, or the facts of intellect, in distinction from pathology (psychological), which is to deal with the science of the phenomenes affectifs, or feeling or sensibility (see Pfaffe, Sur la Sensibilite, p. 30). The use of the … Continue reading “Noology”