Bible Names

Nebo: meaning of the name

Nebo means “that speaks or prophesies.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Nebo in Hebrew and Greek

נְבוֹ H5015

Nᵉbôw (neb-o') — Nebo, the name of a Babylonian deity, also of a mountain in Moab, and of a place in Palestine

probably of foreign derivation;

Who named Nebo in the Bible

Places named Nebo

Nebo in Scripture

“Nebo” appears in 13 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Numbers 32:3

    Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

  • Numbers 32:38

    And Nebo, and Baal–meon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.

  • Numbers 33:47

    And they removed from Almon–diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

  • Deuteronomy 32:49

    Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:

  • Deuteronomy 34:1

    And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

  • 1 Chronicles 5:8

    And Bela the son of Azaz, the son of Shema, the son of Joel, who dwelt in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal–meon:

  • Ezra 2:29

    The children of Nebo, fifty and two.

  • Ezra 10:43

    Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, and Joel, Benaiah.