² tn Heb “Negev.” The Negev is the south country.

³ tn Or “in the Negev” (NASB).

¹ tn Heb “like the streams in the Negev.”

¹ tn Heb “The towns of the Negev will be shut.”

³ tn Heb “[to] the wilderness of Judah in the Negev, Arad.”

¹ tn Or “the South [country]”; Heb “the land of the Negev.”

¹ sn The Negev is a dry, hot, arid region in the southern portion of Judah.

¹ tn The expression refers to the corner or extremity of the Negev, the South.

⁵ sn Negev is the name for the southern desert region in the land of Canaan.

¹ sn Negev is the name for the southern desert region in the land of Canaan.

¹ sn Negev is the name for the southern desert region in the land of Canaan.

² sn Negev is the name for the southern desert region in the land of Canaan.

² tn The instructions had them first go up into the southern desert of the land, and after passing through that, into the hill country of the Canaanites. The text could be rendered “into the Negev” as well as “through the Negev.”

¹ tn Heb “the Negev”; cf. ASV “the South,” NCV, TEV “southern Judah.” The Hebrew text does not have the words “the people of,” but these words have been supplied in the translation for clarity. The place name “the Negev” functions as a synecdoche (container for contents) for the people living in the Negev.

⁴ tn The Hebrew term can also mean “forest,” but a meaning of uncultivated wasteland fits the Negev region far better. See M. Greenberg, Ezekiel (AB), 2:418.

³ sn The Negev is the area of central, southern Judah, south of the hill country and Beer Sheba and west of the rift valley.

² sn The Negev is an area of central, southern Judah, south of the hill country and Beer Sheba and west of the rift valley.

¹ sn The Negev is the area of central, southern Judah, south of the hill country and Beer Sheba and west of the rift valley.

³ tn Or “the south”; “Negev” has become a technical name for the southern desert region and is still in use in modern times.

² tn Heb “And Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all which was his, and Lot with him, to the Negev.”