A mountain of the Abarim range, east of the Jordan and the Dead Sea, from which Moses surveyed the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 32), and where he died (Deuteronomy 34). The location of Mount Nebo is doubtful, but it is identified by some with the modern Jebel Neba, a ridge on a plateau southwest of Hesebon. <\/p>\n
(Septuagint: Nabau).<\/p>\n
A mountain of the Abarim (q. v.) range east of Jordan and the Dead Sea, from which Moses surveyed the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 32:49), and where he died (ibid., xxxiv, 1, 5). The same is probably mentioned in the wanderings in Num., xxxiii, 47: “And departing from Helmondeblathaim, they came to the mountains of Abarim over against Nabo” (Heb. Nebo), though here the reference may be to the town (see NABO). The location of Mount Nebo is doubtful. A comparison of Deut., iii, 27 (cf. Numbers 27:12) with Deut., xxxii, 49 indicates that the “top of Phasga” and Nebo were variant names referring to the same spot. Difficulty arises in that from no point of the Abarim range does it seem possible to behold all the territory mentioned in Deut., xxxiv, 1-3, especially if the “furthermost sea” means the Mediterranean, as in Deut., xi, 24. By some Nebo is identified with the modern Jebel Neba, an oblong ridge on an elevated plateau five miles south-west of Hesebon, 2700 feet above sea level.<\/p>\n
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HUMMELAUER, Comment. in Deut. (Paris, 1901), 211, 533, 560 sqq.; GEIKIE, Hours with the Bible, VI (New York, 1899); 150; DRIVER in Internat. Crit. Comment. (New York, 1895), Deuteronomy, Chap. xxxiv. <\/p>\n
JAMES F. DRISCOLL Transcribed by Kenneth M. Caldwell Dedicated to the Sisters of Charity <\/p>\n
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XCopyright © 1911 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, October 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York<\/p>\n
This vicinity is included in the reduced Map of the Ordnance Survey east of the Jordan, and is described by Lieut. Conder in the Quar. Statement of the “Pal. Explor. Fund,” October 1881, page 275 sq. It was also visited by Dr. Merrill, and his investigations (East of the Jordan, page 241 sq.) confirm the views expressed by us under the art. PISGAH. Tristram remarks (Bible Places, page 349), “A recent traveller has endeavored to show that Jebel Shiagha, the spot where these ruins stand, is Pisgah. The arguments adduced would be equally conclusive in behalf of any of the many flattopped mounds of the neighborhood, one of which must have been Pisgah, although its Arabic equivalent, Fethkhah, seems to have dropped out of the local nomenclature.”<\/p>\n
( , har nebho; , Nabau): A mountain in the land of Moab which Moses ascended at the command of God in order that he might see the Land of Promise which he was never to enter. There also he was to die. From the following passages (namely, Num 33:47; Deu 32:49; Deu 34:1), we gather that it was not far from the plain of Moab in which Israel was encamped; that it was a height standing out to the West of the mountains of Abarim; that it lay to the East of Jericho; and that it was a spot from which a wide and comprehensive view of Palestine could be obtained. None of these conditions are met by Jebel Attarus, which is too far to the East, and is fully 15 miles South of a line drawn eastward from Jericho. Jebel ‘Osha, again, in Mt. Gilead, commands, indeed, an extensive view; but it lies too far to the North, being at least 15 miles North of a line drawn eastward from Jericho. Both of these sites have had their advocates as claimants for the honor of representing the Biblical Nebo.<\/p>\n
The head or top of Pisgah is evidently identical with Mt. Nebo (Deu 34:1). After Moses’ death he was buried in the valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor.<\/p>\n
The name Neba is found on a ridge which, some 5 miles Southwest of Hesban and opposite the northern end of the Dead Sea, runs out to the West from the plateau of Moab, sinking gradually: at first a broad brown field of arable land, then a flat top crowned by a ruined cairn, then a narrower ridge ending in the summit called Siagbah, whence the slopes fall steeply on all sides. The name Nebo or Neba (the knob or tumulus) applies to the flat top with the cairn, and the name Talat es-Sufa to the ascent leading up to the ridge from the North. Thus we have three names which seem to connect the ridge with that whence Moses is related to have viewed the Promised Land, namely, first, Nebo, which is identically the same word as the modern Neba; secondly, Siaghah, which is radically identical with the Aramaic Se’ath, the word standing instead of Nebo in the Targum of Onkelos (Num 32:3), where it is called the burial place of Moses; thirdly, Talat es-Sufa, which is radically identical with the Hebrew Zuph (cuph), whence Mizpah (micpah) and Zophim (cophm)… The name Pisgah is not now known, but the discovery of Zophim (compare Num 23:14) confirms the view now generally held, that it is but another title of the Nebo range.<\/p>\n
Neither Mt. Hermon nor Dan (Tell el-Kady) is visible from this point; nor can Zoar be seen; and if the Mediterranean is the hinder sea, it also is invisible. But, as Driver says (Dt, ICC, 419), the terms in Deu 34:1, Deu 34:3 are hyperbolical, and must be taken as including points filled in by the imagination as well as those actually visible to the eye. Mr. Birch argues in favor of Talat el-Benat, whence he believes Dan and Zoar to be visible, while he identifies the hinder sea with the Dead Sea (PEFS, 1898, 110 ff).<\/p>\n
[Ne’bo]<\/p>\n
On the east of the Jordan, perhaps the highest point of Pisgah, from whence Moses viewed the promised land. It was opposite Jericho. Deu 32:49; Deu 34:1. Identified with Jebel Neba, 31 46′ N, 35 44′ E. It is about 2,643 feet high, and commands an extensive view of western Palestine.<\/p>\n
Ne’bo, Mount. (prophet). The mountain from which Moses took his first and last view of the Promised Land. Deu 32:41; Deu 34:1. It is described as in the land of Moab, facing Jericho; the head or summit of a mountain called Pisgah, which again seems to have formed a portion of the general range of Abarim.<\/p>\n
(Notwithstanding, the minuteness of this description, it is only recently that any one has succeeded in pointing out, any spot which answers to Nebo. Tristram identifies it with a peak, (Jebel Nebbah), of the Abarim or Moab mountains, about three miles southwest of Heshban (Heshbon) and about a mile and a half due west of Baal-meon.<\/p>\n
“It overlooks the mouth of the Jordan, over against Jericho,” Deu 34:1, and the gentle slopes of its sides may well answer to the “field of Zophim.” Num 23:14. Jebel Nebbah is 2683 feet high. It is not an isolated peak, but one of a succession of bare turf-clad eminences, so linked together that the depressions between them were mere hollows, rather than valleys. It commands a wide prospect.<\/p>\n
Professor Paine, of the American Exploration Society, contends that Jebel Nebbah, the highest point of the range, is Mount Nebo, that Jebel Siaghah, the extreme headland of the hill, is Mount Pisgah, and that “the mountains of Abarim, “are the cliffs west of these points, and descending toward the Dead Sea. Probably, the whole mountain or range was called, sometimes, by the name of one peak and, sometimes, by that of another, as is frequently the case with mountains now. — Editor).<\/p>\n
Nebo, Mount A mountain of the Abarim range, east of the Jordan and the Dead Sea, from which Moses surveyed the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 32), and where he died (Deuteronomy 34). The location of Mount Nebo is doubtful, but it is identified by some with the modern Jebel Neba, a ridge on a plateau southwest … Continue reading “Nebo, Mount”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}