Topic
South
33 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 12:9Easton · ISBE
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
- Genesis 13:1Easton · ISBE
And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the south.
- Deuteronomy 33:23Easton · ISBE
¶ And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.
- Job 37:9Easton · ISBE
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
- Ezekiel 20:46Easton · ISBE
Son of man, set thy face toward the south, and drop thy word toward the south, and prophesy against the forest of the south field;
- Genesis 13:3Easton
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;
- Genesis 46:1–6Easton
And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac. And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. And he said, I am God,…
- Deuteronomy 1:7ISBE
Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the…
- Joshua 15:4Easton
From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.
- 1 Samuel 27:10ISBE
And Achish said, Whither have ye made a road to day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.
- 1 Samuel 30:14ISBE
We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.
- 1 Samuel 30:27ISBE
To them which were in Beth-el, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
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- 2 Chronicles 28:18 ISBE
- Psalms 75:6 ISBE
- Psalms 78:26 ISBE
- Psalms 107:3 ISBE
- Psalms 126:4 ISBE
- Psalms 135:7 Easton
- Song of Songs 4:16 ISBE
- Isaiah 21:1 ISBE
- Ezekiel 40:24 ISBE
- Zechariah 9:14 ISBE
- 1 Maccabees 3:57 ISBE
- Matthew 12:42 ISBE
- Luke 11:31 ISBE
- Luke 12:55 ISBE
- Luke 13:29 ISBE
- Acts 8:26 ISBE
- Acts 22:6 ISBE
- Acts 27:12 ISBE
- Acts 27:13 ISBE
- Acts 28:13 ISBE
- Revelation 21:13 ISBE
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 11 references
Heb. Negeb, that arid district to the south of Palestine through which lay the caravan route from Central Palestine to Egypt (Gen. 12:9; 13:1, 3; 46:1-6). “The Negeb comprised a considerable but irregularly-shaped tract of country, its main portion stretching from the mountains and lowlands of Judah in the north to the mountains of Azazemeh in the south, and from the Dead Sea and southern Ghoron the east to the Mediterranean on the west.” In Ezek. 20:46 (21:1 in Heb.) three different Hebrew words are all rendered “south.” (1) “Set thy face toward the south” (Teman, the region on the right, 1 Sam. 33:24); (2) “Drop thy word toward the south” (Negeb, the region of dryness, Josh. 15:4); (3) “Prophesy against the forest of the south field” (Darom, the region of brightness, Deut. 33:23). In Job 37:9 the word “south” is literally “chamber,” used here in the sense of treasury (comp. 38:22; Ps. 135:7). This verse is rendered in the Revised Version “out of the chamber of the south.”
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 32 references
south:
(1) neghebh, according BDB from [?] naghabh, meaning "to be dry," the word most often used, in the Revised Version (British and American) capitalized (South) in those places where it seems to denote a particular region, i.e. to the South of Judah.
(2) yamin, "right hand," "right." The derived meaning, "south," seems to imply an eastern posture in prayer in which the right hand is toward the South; compare Arabic yamin, "right," and yemen, "Yemen," a region in Southwestern Arabia.
(3) teman, from the same root as (2) is often used for the south; also for the south wind (Ps 78:26; So 4:16).
(4) yam, literally, "sea" (Ps 107:3).
(5) darom, etymology doubtful (De 33:23; Eze 40:24).
(6) midhbar, literally, "desert" (Ps 75:6, reading doubtful).
(7) lips, "south west wind" (Ac 27:12).
(8) mesembria, literally, "mid-day"; "south" (Ac 8:26); "noon" (Ac 22:6).
(9) notos, "south wind" (Lu 12:55; Ac 27:13; 28:13); "south" (1 Macc 3:57; Mt 12:42; Lu 11:31; 13:29; Re 21:13).
The south wind is often referred to: see So 4:16; Job 37:9 (compare 9:9); Zec 9:14 (of Isa 21:1); Lu 12:55.
Of the passages where South (neghebh) clearly refers to a particular region between Palestine and Sinai see: "And Abraham journeyed, going on still toward the South" (neghbah) (Ge 12:9; 13:1; De 1:7). We read of "the South of the Jerahmeelites," "the South of the Kenites" (1Sa 27:10); "the South of the Cherethites," "the South of Caleb" (1Sa 30:14); "the South of Judah" (2Ch 28:18); "Ramoth of the South" (1Sa 30:27).
In Ps 126:4, "Turn again our captivity, O Yahweh, as the streams in the South," we have a figurative reference to the fact that, after a long period of drought, the dry watercourses are finally filled with rushing streams. The reference in Eze 20:46 f to "the forest of the South" is to a condition of things very different from that which exists today, though the region is not incapable of supporting trees if they are only planted and protected.
Alfred Ely Day
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.