| | | | the Rabbinical | | | | commentators (Tal Bab | | | | Yoma 31_a_) make the | | | | waters of Nephtoah | | | | and ‘En Etam’ to be | | | | the same, whence an | | | | aqueduct led to the | | | | Temple, and thus | | | | identifies with ʾAin | | | | ʾAtan, south-west of | | | | Bethlehem, which still | | | | supplies the Haram | | | | Area of Jerusalem. | | | | (_Mem._ III. 43; Sh. | | | | XVII.) | | | | =NETOPHAH= |Ezra ii. 22; |_Kh. Umm |14 |The ruin ‘Umm Toba,’ | Neh. vii. | Tôba_ (?) | | north of Bethlehem. | 26; 1 Esd. | | | (_Mem._ III. 52; Sh. | v. 18 | | | XVIII.) Or possibly | | | | Beit Nettif (Rob. | | | | _Bib. Res._ ii. 16, | | | | 17). _See_ Porter’s | | | | _Handbook_, p. 248. | | | | =NEZIB= |Josh. xv. 43 |_Beit Nŭsîb_ |14 |The present ruin ‘Beit | | | | Nŭsîb,’ 8 miles | | | | north-west of Hebron. | | | | (_Mem._ III. 314; Sh. | | | | XXI.) | | | | =NIBSHAN= |Josh. xv. 62 |_Not |-- |One of the six cities | | identified_ | | of Judah, which were | | | | in the wilderness. | | | | =NIMRAH= |Num. xxxii. 3 |_Tell Nimrin_ |14 |_See_ Beth-nimrah. R.V. | | | | margin. | | | | =NIMRIM=, |Isaiah xv. 6; |_W. Nimrin_ |14 |Either the springs near Waters of | Jer. xlviii. | (?) | | ‘Beth-nimrah’ or those | 34 | | | in ‘Wady N’meirah,’ | | | | between Kerak and the | | | | Brook Zered, near the