Adami Nekeb

In Bible versions:

Adami Nekeb: NET NIV
Adami-Nekeb: AVS TEV
Adami-nekeb: NRSV NASB

a town between Lake Galilee and Mount Tabor (OS)

Google Maps: Adami-nekeb (32° 36´, 35° 32´)

Hebrew

Strongs #0129: ymda 'Adamiy

Adami = "man of Adar"

1) a pass or fortified place in Naphtali

129 'Adamiy ad-aw-mee'

from 127; earthy; Adami, a place in Palestine:-Adami.
see HEBREW for 0127

Strongs #05346: bqn Neqeb

Nekeb or Nekeb = "cavern"

1) one of the towns on the boundary of Naphtali

5346 Neqeb neh'-keb

the same as 5345; dell; Nekeb, a place in Palestine:-Nekeb.
see HEBREW for 05345

ADAMI-NEKEB [ISBE]

ADAMI-NEKEB - ad'-a-mi ne'-keb 'adhami ha-neqebh, "the ground of the piercing," that is of the pass, or defile): A place mentioned in indicating the border of Naphtali (Josh 19:33). In the King James Version, Adami and Nekeb are given as separate names, and it is an open question which view of the matter is correct. Most of the Greek texts give the names as two. The Vulgate has "Adami quae est Neceb." The Jerusalem Talmud gives two names, though instead of Hannekeb or Nekeb it has Siyadathah (Meg 1 1, or Neubauer's Geog du Talmud, 225). In the list of places conquered by Thothmes III of Egypt occurs the name NQBU (Tomkins, Rec of Past, new series, V, 47), which seems to be the same with Neqeb.

The list of names for the border of Naphtali (Josh 19:33,34) has no name in common with the list of cities (Josh 19:35-38) unless Adami and Adamah are the same. The PE Survey maps locate Adamah at Damieh, about seven miles northwest of the exit of the Jordan from the Lake of Galilee, and Adami at Khurbet Adamah, five or six miles south of the exit. Conder, Tomkins and others place Adami at Damieh, and identify Nekeb by its Talmudic name in the neighboring ruin Seiyadeh. Conder says (art. "Nekeb," HDB) that the "pass" implied in the name Nekeb "is probably one leading from the eastern precipices near Tiberias."

Willis J. Beecher