Hitchcock's Bible Names
Nophhoneycomb; anything that distills or drops
Smith's Bible Dictionary
Noph[MEMPHIS]
ATS Bible Dictionary
NophSometimes called also, in Hebrew, MOPH, Hosea 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, Isaiah 19:13 Jeremiah 2:16 44:1 Eze 30:13,16.
Memphis was the residence of the ancient kings of Egypt till the times of the Ptolemies, who commonly resided at Alexandria. Here, it is supposed, Joseph was a prisoner and a ruler, and here Moses stood before Pharaoh. The prophets, in the places above referred to, foretell the miseries Memphis was to suffer from the kings of Chaldea and Persia; and threaten the Israelites who should retire into Egypt, or should have recourse to the Egyptians, that they should perish in that country. In this city they fed and worshipped the sacred bull Apis, the embodiment of their false god Osiris; and Ezekiel says, that the lord will destroy the idols of Memphis, Ezekiel 30:13,16. Memphis retained much of its splendor till it was conquered by the Arabians in the eighteenth or nineteenth year of the Hegira, A. D. 641; after which it was superseded as the metropolis of Egypt by Fostat, now Old Cairo, in the construction of which its materials were employed. The pyramids, in which its distinguished men were buried, still survive; but the magnificent city, that stretched along for many miles between them and the river, has almost wholly disappeared.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
NOPHnof (noph; in Hosea 9:6 moph): A name for the Egyptian city Memphis (so the Septuagint), hence, thus rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) (Isaiah 19:13 Jeremiah 2:16; Jeremiah 44:1 Ezekiel 30:13, 16).
See MEMPHIS.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The Hebrew name of an Egyptian city (
Isaiah 19:13;
Jeremiah 2:16;
44:1;
46:14, 19;
Ezek. 30:13, 16). In
Hosea 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.)
Strong's Hebrew
5297. Noph -- a city in Egypt... << 5296, 5297.
Noph. 5298 >>. a city in Egypt. Transliteration:
Noph Phonetic
Spelling: (nofe) Short Definition: Memphis. Word
... Noph. A
... /hebrew/5297.htm - 6k 5131. noph -- elevation, height
... << 5130, 5131. noph. 5132 >>. elevation, height. Transliteration: noph Phonetic
Spelling: (nofe) Short Definition: elevation. ... Compare Noph. see HEBREW nuwph. ...
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4644. Moph -- ancient capital of Egypt
... NASB Word Usage Memphis (1). Memphis. Of Egyptian origin: Moph, the capital of Lower
Egypt -- Memphis. Compare Noph. see HEBREW Noph. << 4643, 4644. Moph. 4645 ...
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5316. Nepheth -- "height," a city belonging to Manasseh
... Word Origin from the same as noph Definition "height," a city belonging to Manasseh
NASB Word Usage Napheth (1). country. For naphah; a height -- country. ...
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5299b. naphah -- height
... height. Transliteration: naphah Short Definition: heights. Word Origin from the
same as noph Definition height NASB Word Usage height (1), heights (2). ...
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