Exile; wandering; unrest, a name given to the country to which Cain fled (Gen. 4:16). It lay on the east of Eden.
Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain
Place
Nod
Name meaning: vagabond; fugitive (Hitchcock)
Hebrew & Greek words with this meaning
- H5113נוֹדNôwdNod, the land of Cain
- H5110נוּדnûwdto nod, i.e. waver; figuratively, to wander, flee, disappear; also (from shaking the head in sympathy), to console, deplore, or (from tossing the head in scorn) taunt
- G3573νυστάζωnystázōto nod, i.e. (by implication) to fall asleep; figuratively, to delay
- G3506νεύωneúōto "nod", i.e. (by analogy), signal
Key verses
Also in Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(flight), the land to which Cain fled after the murder of Abel. [Cain]
Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863) · Public domain
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