Difference between revisions of "Noph"

<p> (Heb. id., '''''נֹ''''' '';'' Sept. '''''Μέμφις''''' ; ''Vulg. Memphis,'' &nbsp;Isaiah 19:13; &nbsp;Jeremiah 2:16; &nbsp;Ezekiel 30:13; &nbsp;Ezekiel 30:16; doubtless identical with '''''מֹ''''' , foph; Sept. '''''Μέμφις''''' '';'' Vulg. ''Memphis,'' &nbsp;Hosea 9:6), a city of Egypt, better known bv its classic name ''Memphis.'' These forms are contracted from the ancient [[Egyptian]] common name, ''Men-Nufr,'' or ''Men Nefru,'' "the good abode," or perhaps "the abode of the good one;" also contracted in the [[Coptic]] forms ''Menphi, Memphi, Menbe, Membe'' (Memphitic), ''Menrphe'' (Sahidic); in the Greek '''''Μέμφις''''' , and in the Arabic ''Menf.'' The [[Hebrew]] forms are to be regarded as representing colloquial forms of the name, current with the Shemites, if not with-the [[Egyptians]] also. As to the meaning of Memphis, [[Plutarch]] observes that it was interpreted to signify either the haven of good ones or the sepulcher of [[Osiris]] ( '''''Καὶ''''' '''''Τὴν''''' '''''Πόλιν''''' '''''Οἱ''''' '''''Μὲν''''' '''''Ὅρμον''''' '''''Ἀγαθῶν''''' '''''Ἑρυηνεύουσιν''''' '''''Οἱ''''' '''''Δ᾿''''' [ '''''Ἰδί''''' ] '''''Ως''''' '''''Τάφον''''' '''''Ο᾿Σίριδος''''' , De Iside et Osiride, 20). It is probable that the epithet "[[Good]] " refers to Osiris, whose sacred animal [[Apis]] was here worshipped, and here had its burial-place, the Serapeum, whence the name of the village [[Busiris]] ( ''Pa-Hesar?'' "the [abode ?] of Osiris"), now represented in name, if not in exact site, by ''Abu-Sir,'' probably originally a quarter of Memphis. As the great upper Egyptian city is characterized in Nahum as "situate among the rivers" (3:8), so in Hosea the lower Egyptian one is distinguished by its Necropolis, in this passage as to the fugitive Israelites: "Mizraim shall gather them up, [[Noph]] shall bury them.;" for its burial-ground, stretching for twenty miles along the edge of the [[Libyan]] desert, greatly exceeds that of any other Egyptian town. See Brugsch, Geogr. Inschr. 1:234 sq. (See Memphis). </p>

<p> ''''' nof ''''' ( נף , <i> ''''' nōph ''''' </i> ; in &nbsp; Hosea 9:6 <i> ''''' mōph ''''' </i> ): A name for the Egyptian city Memphis (so the Septuagint), hence, thus rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) (&nbsp;Isaiah 19:13; &nbsp;Jeremiah 2:16; &nbsp;Jeremiah 44:1; &nbsp;Ezekiel 30:13 , &nbsp;Ezekiel 30:16 ). See Memphis . </p>