Nophah

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

 Numbers 21:30. Mentioned in the Amorites' triumphal song, after recounting the conquest of Heshbon from Moab. Ewald locates Nobah near Heshbon ( Numbers 32:35;  Numbers 32:42) and identifies Nophah with it.

Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary

A city of Israel, originally belonging to the Moabites. ( Numbers 21:30) From Naphak, that breathes.

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Numbers 21:26 21:30 Numbers 32:42

Morrish Bible Dictionary

Ancient name of some place, probably near Heshbon.  Numbers 21:30 .

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Numbers 21:30

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

NOPHAH. See Nobah.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Heb. No'phach, נֹפִח; the Samar. has the article, הנפִח; Sept. αἱ γυναῖκες , v. r. αἱ γ . αὐτῶν; Vulg. Nophe ), a place mentioned only in  Numbers 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 with Dibon and Medeba, and was possibly in the neighborhood of Heshbon. A name very similar to Nophah is Nobah, which is twice mentioned; once as bestowed by the conqueror of the same name on Kenath (a place still existing more than seventy miles distant from the scene of the Amoritish conflict), and again in connection with Jogbehah, which latter, from the mode of its occurrence in  Numbers 32:36, would seem to have been in the neighborhood of Heshbon. Ewald (Gesch. 2:268, note) decides (though without giving his grounds) that Nophah is identical with the latter of these. In that case the difference would be a dialectical one, Nophah being the Moabitish or Amoritish form. (See Nobah).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

nō´fa ( נפח , nōphāḥ  ; the Septuagint does not transliterate): A city mentioned only in   Numbers 21:30 (see Nobah ). Septuagint reads: kaı́ hai gunaı́kes éti prosexékausan púr epı́ Moáb , "and the women besides (yet) kindled a fire at (against) Moab." The text has evidently suffered corruption.