"Land of Nod The Land of Nod (, ""eretz-Nod"") is a place mentioned in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible, located ""on the east of Eden"" (""qidmat-‘Eden""), where Cain was exiled by God after Cain had murdered his brother Abel. According to Genesis 4:16: ""Nod"" (נוד) is the Hebrew root of the verb ""to wander"" (לנדוד). Therefore, to dwell in the land of Nod is usually taken to mean that one takes up a wandering life. Genesis 4:17 relates that after arriving in the Land of Nod, Cain's wife bore him a son, Enoch, in whose name he"
"the face of God. Augustine described unconverted Jews as dwellers in the land of Nod, which he defined as commotion and ""carnal disquietude"". Land of Nod is the name of a small hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is located at the far end of a two-mile-long road which joins the A614 road at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor (). The name ""Land of Nod"" was accorded locally to the northerly 3,000 acres of the Great Plot lying north of Woburn, Massachusetts at its foundation in 1640-42, 'the name being probably suggested by a comparison of its forlorn condition - so"
"the land of Nod is the home in exile of Caine, the first vampire. God's curse upon Caine is interpreted as transforming him and his line into vampires. The biblical quote is mentioned in the ""Command & Conquer"" video game, and is thought to be the origin of the name for the Brotherhood of Nod, as the group's charismatic leader is also known only as Kane. Kane's command center, known as the Temple of Nod, also houses a coffin bearing the name Abel upon its surface, and the preserved body of his most trusted officer, Seth (in reference to the"
"and measures; transforming human culture from innocence into craftiness and deceit; establishing property lines; and building a fortified city. Nod is said to be outside of the presence or face of God. Origen defined Nod as the land of trembling and wrote that it symbolized the condition of all who forsake God. Early commentators treated it as the opposite of Eden (worse still than the land of exile for the rest of humanity). In the English tradition Nod was sometimes described as a desert inhabited only by ferocious beasts or monsters. Others interpreted Nod as dark or even underground—away from"
"Land of Goshen The Land of Goshen ( or ""Eretz Gošen"") is named in the Bible as the place in Egypt given to the Hebrews by the pharaoh of Joseph (), and the land from which they later left Egypt at the time of the Exodus. It was located in the eastern Delta of the Nile. If the Septuagint reading ""Gesem"" is correct, the word, which in its Hebrew form has no known meaning, may mean ""cultivated""—comparing the Arabic root ""j-š-m"", ""to labor"". Egyptologists have suggested a connection with the Egyptian word ""qas"", meaning ""inundated land"" because Goshen was apparently"
"Nob, Israel Nob was a priestly town in ancient Israel in the vicinity of Jerusalem. It may have been located close to Bahurim, near the Mount of Olives or possibly further north at Tell Shuafat. It likely belonged to the Tribe of Benjamin, Jerusalem being at the border between the tribes of Benjamin and Judah. In the Bible (1 Samuel chapters 21 and 22), David fled to the high priest Ahimelech's shrine at Nob, where the Ark of the Covenant was now located. Here he ate the showbread which had been withdrawn from the sanctuary and received the sword of"
"far remote from church ordinances - with the Nod to which Cain wandered when he went ""from the presence of the Lord"".' Its native American name was Nena Saawaattawattocks. Land of Nod Road is the name of a residential road in Windham, Maine, USA (), and a private road in Headley Down, Hampshire, UK (). The Land of Nod can refer to the mythical land of sleep, a pun on ""Land of Nod"" (Gen. 4:16). To ""go off to the land of Nod"" plays with the phrase to ""nod off"", meaning to go to sleep. The first recorded use of"
"Land of Tema The Land of Tema, te'-ma or tema', ( תֵּמָא, Θαιμάν, تيماء (مدينة) and Thaiman) is a place mentioned in the Bible where the descendants of Ishmael's son Tema dwelt. In Hebrew, the name means ""south country"" and was named for Tema, a son of Ishmael and the tribe descended from him The Bible mentions it five times. It was located in Edom and is described as a remote oasis on a main trade route through Arabia. It is often associated with the Land of Dumah. It was admonished by Amos and Jeremiah. It was mentioned by Ptolemy,"
"distinguished, in most cases the same word being used for both. In some passages the land of Babylonia is called Shinar, while in the post-exilic literature it is called Chaldea. In the Book of Genesis, Babylonia is described as the land in which Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh are located – cities that are declared to have formed the beginning of Nimrod's kingdom (Gen. x 10). Here, the Tower of Babel was located (Gen. xi. 1–9); and it was also the seat of Amraphel's dominion (Gen. xiv. 1, 9). In the historical books Babylonia is frequently referred to (there are"
"Nimrod Nimrod (; , , ""an-Namrūd""), a biblical figure described as a king in the land of Shinar (Assyria/Mesopotamia), was, according to the Book of Genesis and Books of Chronicles, the son of Cush, therefore the great-grandson of Noah. The Bible states that he was ""a mighty hunter before the Lord [and] ... began to be mighty in the earth"". Extra-biblical traditions associating him with the Tower of Babel led to his reputation as a king who was rebellious against God. Attempts to match Nimrod with historically attested figures have failed. Nimrod may not represent any one personage known to"
"Book of Genesis which were said to have been destroyed in the time of Abraham: Sodom and Gomorra (Genesis 18) and the three other ""Cities of the Plain"", Admah, Zeboim and Zoar (Deuteronomy 29:23). Zoar escaped destruction when Abraham's nephew Lot escaped to Zoar from Sodom (Genesis 19:21–22). Before the destruction, the Dead Sea was a valley full of natural tar pits, which was called the vale of Siddim. King David was said to have hidden from Saul at Ein Gedi nearby. In there is a specific prophecy that the sea will ""be healed and made fresh"", becoming a normal"
"Mount Nebo Mount Nebo ( ""Jabal Nībū""; ""Har Nevo"") is an elevated ridge in Jordan, approximately above sea level, mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the place where Moses was granted a view of the Promised Land. The view from the summit provides a panorama of the Holy Land and, to the north, a more limited one of the valley of the River Jordan. The West Bank city of Jericho is usually visible from the summit, as is Jerusalem on a very clear day. According to the final chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy, Moses ascended Mount Nebo to view"
"Land of Israel The Land of Israel () is the traditional Jewish name for an area of indefinite geographical extension in the Southern Levant. Related biblical, religious and historical English terms include the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land, the Holy Land, and Palestine (see also Israel (disambiguation)). The definitions of the limits of this territory vary between passages in the Hebrew Bible, with specific mentions in Genesis 15, Exodus 23, Numbers 34 and Ezekiel 47. Nine times elsewhere in the Bible, the settled land is referred as ""from Dan to Beersheba, and three times it is referred as ""from"
"his brother. In ""Bad Monkeys"", a psychological thriller by Matt Ruff, the main character frequently refers to apparent contradictions in her back story as ""Nod problems."" In the Sabina Kane series by Jaye Wells, Cain lived in The Land of Nod with Lillith. There is a secret society called the Caste of Nod. Nod is the name of a 2012 novel by Adrian Barnes in which humanity stops being able to sleep. The title refers both to the Land of Sleep and the place described in the Bible. In the ""World of Darkness"" role-playing setting by White Wolf Game Studio,"
"Genesis chapter 13, Abraham lived for a while in the Negev after being banished from Egypt. During the Exodus journey to the promised land, Moses sent twelve scouts into the Negev to assess the land and population. Later the northern part of biblical Negev was inhabited by the Tribe of Judah and the southern part of biblical Negev by the Tribe of Simeon. The Negev was later part of the Kingdom of Solomon (in its entirety, all the way to the Red Sea), and then, with varied extension to the south, part of the Kingdom of Judah. In the 9th"
"Tribe of Gad.() The word means ""no pasture,""() ""no word"" or ""no communication"". Possible locations are: Lo-debar Lo-debar was a town in the Old Testament in Gilead not far from Mahanaim, north of the Jabbok river () in ancient Israel. It is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the home of Machir, a contemporary of David. (2 Samuel 9:4,5). Lo-debar was also considered a low place town in biblical times. Mephibosheth, son of Jonathan was living in Lo-debar. King David showed loving kindness to Jonathan's son Mephibosheth by bringing him from Lo-debar and having him eat at the King's table"
"built the first city. ""Nod"" () is the Hebrew root of the verb ""to wander"" (). Therefore, to dwell in the land of Nod can mean to live a wandering life. Gesenius defines () as follows: TO BE MOVED, TO BE AGITATED (Arab. ناد Med. Waw id.), used of a reed shaken by the wind, 1Ki.14:15; hence ""to wander, to be a fugitive"", Jer. 4:1; Gen. 4:12, 14; Ps.56:9; ""to flee"", Ps. 11:1; Jer. 49:30. Figuratively, Isa. 17:11, ""the harvest has fled"" [""but see ,"" which some take in this place as the subst.]. Much as Cain's name is connected"
"wander for forty years in the desert in the vicinity of Kadesh instead of immediately entering the Promised Land. Even Moses sins and is told he would not live to enter the land (Numbers 20). At the end of Numbers (Numbers 26–35) Israel moves from Kadesh to the plains of Moab opposite Jericho, ready to enter the Promised Land. ""Deuteronomy"" is a series of speeches by Moses on the plains of Moab opposite Jericho. Also referred to as Mishneh Torah in Hebrew (a repeat of the Torah) the essential gist of the entire book is a rebuke to the Children"
"The term 'Land of Israel' (γῆ Ἰσραήλ) occurs in one episode in the New Testament (), where, according to Shlomo Sand, it bears the unusual sense of 'the area surrounding Jerusalem'. The section in which it appears was written as a parallel to the earlier Book of Exodus. describes what are known as ""Borders of the Land"" (""Gevulot Ha-aretz""), which in Jewish tradition defines the extent of the land promised to the descendants of Abraham, through his son Isaac and grandson Jacob. The passage describes the area as the land of the ten named ancient peoples then living there. More"
"Mountains of Ararat In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat (Biblical Hebrew , Tiberian """", Septuagint: ) is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood. It corresponds to ancient Assyrian Urartu, an exonym for the Kingdom of Van. Citing historians Berossus, Hieronymus the Egyptian, Mnaseas, and Nicolaus of Damascus, Josephus writes in his ""Antiquities of the Jews"" that ""[t]he ark rested on the top of a certain mountain in Armenia, . . . over Minyas, called Baris."" Likewise, in the Latin Vulgate, Jerome translates Genesis 8:4 to"
"Mount Nebo: ""Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea, the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. Then the LORD said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I"
"him settle in the land of Nod. Greenspoon says, ""The root of the Hebrew verb 'to wander' is ""n-w-d"" and ""the proper name 'Nod' derives from the same root as the verb 'to wander'... What sort of settling is Cain likely to experience in a land whose very name connotes (constant) wandering?"" Greenspoon says Aaron's response to getting caught after making the golden calf is humorous. ""Does Aaron come clean when confronted by his enraged brother...? Not exactly. He does attempt to shift blame—""You know this people is bent on evil"". He also admits to asking the people for their"
"Cush (Bible) Cush or Kush ( , ""Kush"") was, according to the Bible, the eldest son of Ham, a son of Noah. He was the brother of Canaan (land of Canaan), Mizraim (Egypt) and Phut (land of Libya), and the father of the Biblical Nimrod mentioned in the ""Table of Nations"" in the Genesis 10:6 and I Chronicles 1:8. Cush is traditionally considered the eponymous ancestor of the people of the ""land of Cush,"" an ancient territory that is believed to have been located on either side or both sides of the Red Sea. As such, ""Cush"" is alternately identified"
"went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the Land of Nod, on the east of Eden"" (King James Version). Other biblical parallels in the novel include: In the novel, Adam, Samuel, and Lee have a significant conversation in which they realize that since Abel died before he had children, they themselves are the descendants of Cain. However, this does not correspond to the text of Genesis, which states that contemporary humans are descended neither from Cain nor Abel, but from Adam and Eve's third son, Seth. As he wrote the novel, Steinbeck went through a number"
"Sodom and Gomorrah Sodom and Gomorrah () were cities mentioned in the Book of Genesis and throughout the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and in the deuterocanonical books, as well as in the Quran and the hadith. According to the Torah, the kingdoms of Sodom and Gomorrah were allied with the cities of Admah, Zeboim, and Bela. These five cities, also known as the ""cities of the plain"" (from Genesis in the Authorized Version), were situated on the Jordan River plain in the southern region of the land of Canaan. The plain was compared to the garden of Eden as"
"spirit of sanctity that God's Presence will rest upon them collectively, as if the congregation itself was the Ark of the Covenant."" According to Second Maccabees, at the beginning of chapter 2: The ""mountain from the top of which Moses saw God's promised land"" would be Mount Nebo, located in what is now Jordan. In the New Testament, the Ark is mentioned in the Letter to the Hebrews and the Revelation to St. John. states that the Ark contained ""the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tablets of the covenant."" says the prophet saw"
"the Land of Canaan, which God had said he would not enter; he died in Moab. According to Christian tradition, Moses was buried on the mountain, although his place of burial is not specified (). Some Islamic traditions also stated the same, although there is a grave of Moses located at Maqam El-Nabi Musa, south of Jericho and east of Jerusalem in the Judean wilderness. Scholars continue to dispute whether the mountain currently known as Nebo is the same as the mountain referred to in Deuteronomy. According to 2 Maccabees (), the prophet Jeremiah hid the tabernacle and the Ark"
"extending as far north as the mountain of Gilead, from which country they expelled the Emim, the original inhabitants, but they themselves were afterward driven southward by warlike tribes of Amorites, who had crossed the river Jordan. These Amorites, described in the Bible as being ruled by King Sihon, confined the Moabites to the country south of the river Arnon, which formed their northern boundary. God renewed his covenant with the Israelites at Moab before the Israelites entered the ""promised land"" (). Moses died there, prevented by God from entering the promised land. He was buried in an unknown location"
"""happiness, joy"" and עד (ad) ""eternity, forever""; i.e. ""eternal happiness"". Gilead Gilead or Gilad (; , ) is the name of three people and two geographic places in the Bible. Gilead may mean ""hill of testimony"". It is derived from ""gal‛êd"", which in turn comes from ""gal"" (heap, mound, hill) and ""‛êd"" (witness, testimony). There also exists an alternative theory that it means ""rocky region"". It is now within the Kingdom of Jordan. Gilead was a mountainous region east of the Jordan River divided among the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, and situated in Jordan. It is also referred"
"original country, according to the Hebrew Bible, stretched from the Sinai peninsula as far as Kadesh Barnea. Southward it reached as far as Eilat, which was the seaport of Edom. On the north of Edom was the territory of Moab. The boundary between Moab and Edom was the Wadi Zered. The ancient capital of Edom was Bozrah. According to Genesis, Esau's descendants settled in this land after displacing the Horites. It was also called the land of Seir; Mount Seir appears to have been strongly identified with them and may have been a cultic site. In the time of Amaziah"
"the Garden of Eden naked due to their innocence. The location of Eden is described in the Book of Genesis as the source of four tributaries. The Garden of Eden is considered to be mythological by most scholars. Among those that consider it to have been real, there have been various suggestions for its location: at the head of the Persian Gulf, in southern Mesopotamia (now Iraq) where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers run into the sea; and in Armenia. The second part of the Genesis creation narrative, , opens with YHWH-Elohim (translated here ""the God"", see Names of God"
"Mount Judi Mount Judi ( ', ', , """", ), also spelled Guti and Kutu, according to very Early Christian and Islamic tradition (based on the Qur'an, Hud:44), is Noah's apobaterion or ""Place of Descent"", the location where the Ark came to rest after the Great Flood. The Quranic tradition is similar to the Judeo-Christian legend. The identification of Mount Judi as the landing site of the ark persisted in Syriac and Armenian tradition throughout Late Antiquity but was abandoned for the tradition equating the biblical location with the highest mountain of the region, Mount Ararat. Jewish Babylonian, Syriac, and"
"rest."" Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, also mentioned Mount Ararat as the resting place of Noah's Ark in his speech at the Etchmiadzin Cathedral during his visit to Armenia in 2010. Those critical of this view point out that Ararat was the name of the country, not the mountain, at the time when Genesis was written. Arnold wrote in his 2008 Genesis commentary, ""The location 'on the mountains' of Ararat indicates not a specific mountain by that name, but rather the mountainous region of the land of Ararat."" Ararat has traditionally been the main"