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Smith's Bible Dictionary

No-Amon

(temple of Amon) (Nahum 3:8) No, (Jeremiah 46:25; Ezekiel 30:14,16) a city of Egypt, better known under the name of Thebes or Diospolis Magna, the ancient and splendid metropolis of upper Egypt The second part of the first form as the name of Amen , the chief divinity of Thebes, mentioned or alluded to in connection with this place in Jeremiah. There is a difficulty as to the meaning of No. It seems most reasonable to suppose that No is a Shemitic name and that Amen is added in Nahum (l.c.) to distinguish Thebes from some other place bearing the same name or on account of the connection of Amen with that city. The description of No-amon as "situated among the rivers, the waters round about it" (Nah. l.c.), remarkably characterizes Thebes. (It lay on both sides of the Nile, and was celebrated for its hundred gates, for its temples, obelisks, statues. etc. It was emphatically the city of temples, in the ruins of which many monuments of ancient Egypt are preserved, The plan of the city was a parallelogram, two miles from north to south and four from east to west, but none suppose that in its glory if really extended 33 miles along both aides of the Nile. Thebes was destroyed by Ptolemy, B.C. 81, and since then its population has dwelt in villages only. --ED.)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

NO-AMON

no-a'-mon (no' 'amon, Egyptian nut, "a city," with the feminine ending t, and Amon, proper name of a god, City Amon, i.e. the "City," paragraph excellence, of the god Amon; translated in the King James Version "populous No," following the Vulgate (Jerome's Latin Bible, 390-405 A.D.) in a misunderstanding of the word 'amon; the Revised Version (British and American) "No-amon"): Occurs in this form only in Nahum 3:8, but 'amon minno', "Amon of No," occurs in Jeremiah 46:25. Compare also Ezekiel 30:14-16, where no', is undoubtedly the same city.

The description of No-amon in Nahum 3:8 seems to be that of a delta city, but yam, "sea" in that passage is used poetically for the Nile, as in Job 41:31 and in Isaiah 18:2. With this difficulty removed, the Egyptian etymology of the name leaves no doubt as to the correct identification of the place. The "City Amon" in the days of Nahum, Jeremiah and Ezekiel was Thebes (compare the article "Thebes" in any general encyclopedia).

M. G. Kyle

Strong's Hebrew

528. Amon -- an Eg. god
... Definition: Amon. Word Origin of foreign origin Definition an Eg. god NASB
Word Usage Amon (1), No-amon* (1). multitude, populous. Of ...
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4996. No -- an Eg. city
... Definition: Thebes. Word Origin of foreign origin Definition an Eg. city
NASB Word Usage No-amon* (1), Thebes (4). No. Of Egyptian ...
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Library

Nahum
... of her sins that this utter ruin is coming upon her, iii.1-7, nor need she think
to escape; for the populous and all but impregnable Thebes (No-Amon) was taken ...
//christianbookshelf.org/mcfadyen/introduction to the old testament/nahum.htm

Nahum's Doom of Nineveh
... Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the rivers, That had the waters
round about her; Whose rampart was the sea, And her wall was of the sea? ...
/.../select masterpieces of biblical literature/xi nahums doom of nineveh.htm

The Twelve Minor Prophets.
... For her innumerable sins she shall be brought to shame before the nations of the
earth, and made like populous No, that is, No-amon, the celebrated metropolis ...
/.../barrows/companion to the bible/chapter xxiii the twelve minor.htm

Sargon of Assyria (722-705 BC )
... Thebes was at that time known among the Semites by its popular name of the city
of Amon"which the Hebrew writers transcribed as No-Amon (Nahum iii.8) or No ...
/.../chapter iiisargon of assyria 722-705.htm

The Power of Assyria at Its Zenith; Esarhaddon and Assur-Bani-Pal
History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 8. <. ...
/.../chapter iithe power of assyria 2.htm

Thesaurus

Noamon
... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia NO-AMON. no-a'-mon (no' 'amon, Egyptian
nut, "a city," with the feminine ending t, and Amon, proper ...
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No-amon (1 Occurrence)
No-amon. Noamon, No-amon. Nob . Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia NO-AMON. ... (WEB
JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS). Noamon, No-amon. Nob . Reference Bible.
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No (18543 Occurrences)
... In Nahum 3:8 the "populous No" of the Authorized Version is in the Revised Version
correctly rendered "No-Amon.". ... NO. no. See NO-AMON. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Nob (6 Occurrences)

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No-ammon (1 Occurrence)
No-ammon. Noah's, No-ammon. Noamon . Multi-Version Concordance No-ammon (1
Occurrence). ... (YLT). Noah's, No-ammon. Noamon . Reference Bible.
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Rampart (9 Occurrences)
... Nahum 3:8 Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had
the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea ...
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Earthwork (7 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Nahum 3:8 Are you better than No-amon, seated on the Nile streams, with waters
all round her; whose wall was the sea and her earthwork the waters? (BBE). ...
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Put (13688 Occurrences)
... In Nahum 3:9 Put is the helper of No-amon (Thebes in Egypt), and in Ezekiel 27:10
Put appears with Persia and Lydia (Lud) as being in the army of Tyre. ...
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Consisted (6 Occurrences)
... Nahum 3:8 Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had
the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea ...
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Amon (20 Occurrences)
... In Nahum 3:8 the expression "populous No" of the Authorized version is rendered
in the Revised Version "No-amon." Amon is identified with Ra, the sun-god of ...
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Bible Concordance

No-amon (1 Occurrence)

Nahum 3:8 Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
(WEB JPS ASV BBE DBY NAS)

Subtopics

No-Amon

Related Terms

No-amon (1 Occurrence)

No (18543 Occurrences)

Nob (6 Occurrences)

No-ammon (1 Occurrence)

Rampart (9 Occurrences)

Earthwork (7 Occurrences)

Put (13688 Occurrences)

Consisted (6 Occurrences)

Amon (20 Occurrences)