Bible Names

Nun: meaning of the name

Nun means “same as Non.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Nun in Hebrew and Greek

נוּן H5126

Nûwn (noon) — Nun or Non, the father of Joshua

or נוֹן; (1 Chronicles 7:27), from H5125 (נוּן); perpetuity,

Who named Nun in the Bible

Nun in Scripture

“Nun” appears in 29 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Exodus 33:11

    And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

  • Numbers 11:28

    And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

  • Numbers 13:8

    Of the tribe of Ephraim, Oshea the son of Nun.

  • Numbers 13:16

    These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.

  • Numbers 14:6

    And Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of them that searched the land, rent their clothes:

  • Numbers 14:30

    Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

  • Numbers 14:38

    But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

  • Numbers 26:65

    For the Lord had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.