Nun
נוּןStrong’s H5126nun
Appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nun is the Hebrew word usually translated “nun”. It appears in 30 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.”
Meaning
- A man of the tribe of Ephraim living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.33.11
How it's translated
- nun 30
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 11
- Joshua 10
- Deuteronomy 4
- Exodus 1
- Judges 1
- 1 Kings 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 11:28And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.
- Numbers 13:8Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.
- Numbers 13:16These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.
- Numbers 14:6And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:
- Numbers 14:30Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
- Numbers 14:38But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
Hebrew dictionary
נוּן nun · Nun
A man of the tribe of Ephraim living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.33.11; son of: Elishama (H0476); father of: Joshua (H3091) § Nun = "fish" or "posterity" father of Joshua the successor of Moses
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “nun” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NUN, noun
A woman devoted to a religious life, and who lives in a cloister or nunnery, secluded from the world, under a vow of perpetual chastity.
All definitions and other forms of “nun”
NUN, noun
- A web-footed fowl of the size of a duck, with a white head and neck.
- The blue titmouse.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.