What's In the Name "Negev"?

Etymology - study of word and term origins and associations - is revealing of many things, especially so in the Hebrew language.


http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Negev.html#.WMC4M28rLb0

The name Negev is the modern version of the original name Negeb (the Hebrew letter ב, beth, was once probably pronounced as a B but now as a V; that's why today some people are called Avraham instead of the classic Abraham), but it's not clear when the word נגב (negeb) became a name.

The word נגב (negeb) appears to have several meanings and the chances are excellent that we modern readers of the Bible are simply clueless about the whole compass of this word, and thus the name Negev. In Old Testament times, a country in the political sense would be known by border markers (or border towns) at its extremes and a ruler of sorts at its most pronounced city. A "region" would be known by some distinctly different feature, like mountains or a decidedly different climate. It's a bit of a mystery to which region the name or word נגב (negeb) was applied, and why. The area originally known as the נגב (negeb) appears to have been located somewhere in between Egypt and Canaan but the exact borders are quite unclear (Genesis 13:1-3)

Older versions of the Bible (KJV, Young, Darby, JSP) consistently translate our word with "the south" or "South Land" but modern translations (NAS, NIV) treat this word as a proper name when it seems appropriate. This obviously requires the translator to be insightful enough to know what the author meant to say, which isn't always easy. And the result is an unwanted association with the present day Negev region which is arguably not the same as the area named Negeb back then. And then, to modern readers the word negev is foreign and specific but to a Hebrew audience, it was an ordinary word that meant ordinary things and was used to describe many things other than what we call the Negev.

When this ancient land is studied it is best seen through the eyes of former inhabitants who knew it as a much different place in their times.





Negev Restoration Blog Page Guide

Read First
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-israel-negev-what-happened.html

Read Second
The Israel Negev - What Happened?
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-israel-negev-what-happened.html

Read Third
This Page
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/whats-in-namel-negev.html


Read Fourth
History of the Negev - Proofs and Evidences
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/history-of-negev-proofs-and-evidences.html


Read Fifth
On The Occupiers Of The Present Negev
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/on-occupiers-of-present-negev.html


Read Sixth
The Negev Question - Understanding The Real Garden of Eden Effect
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-negev-question-understanding-real.html


Read Seventh
Negev Farming - Wide Variety of Times & Practice
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/negev-farming-wide-variety-of-times.html


Read Eighth
Knowing Where The Former Negev Was To See Our Goal Now
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/seeing-where-former-negev-was-to-know.html

History of the Negev - Proofs and Evidences

Some of the ways we who know the veracity of the Negev in Jew history works for us is obscured by our familiarity with the passages. To others with little and no familiarity, it is a hard stretch to see the land and people connections. In the Hebrew Scripture records are fascinating ancient accounts of the Jews' intimate travels in and occupation of this land. Here is one recent man's experience with hiking these areas in light of those ancient occupants describing exactly the same area!

http://www.jpost.com/Travel/Around-Israel/Off-the-Beaten-Track-Hiking-the-Negev-wilderness




Negev Restoration Blog Page Guide

Read First
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-israel-negev-what-happened.html

Read Second
The Israel Negev - What Happened?
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-israel-negev-what-happened.html

Read Third
What's In the Name "Negev"?
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/whats-in-namel-negev.html


Read Fourth
This Page
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/history-of-negev-proofs-and-evidences.html


Read Fifth
On The Occupiers Of The Present Negev
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/on-occupiers-of-present-negev.html


Read Sixth
The Negev Question - Understanding The Real Garden of Eden Effect
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-negev-question-understanding-real.html


Read Seventh
Negev Farming - Wide Variety of Times & Practice
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/negev-farming-wide-variety-of-times.html


Read Eighth
Knowing Where The Former Negev Was To See Our Goal Now
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/seeing-where-former-negev-was-to-know.html

On The Occupiers Of The Present Negev

Oddly the ways that the Arab contingency works is always by decpetion!

In their attempts to gain land away from Jews the Arab contingency has been caught red handed over and over lying, creating acted out events that are termed "news" by their media and even their amassed warfare efforts against israel have been public bluffing and posturing that, when faced by real incoming fire, these Arabs took to their instant retreat to the nearest cover rather than attempt in the least ways to defend their territory, even their own homelands!

So, when these bluffers claim to "own" any land, it is the first line of reason to call their bluff and demand hard evidence. In recent Bedouin claims to be Original Occupants, they were caught red handed over and over with bogas claims and fabricated "evidences."

Here's some of this exposed . . .

http://www.thetower.org/article/why-the-bedouins-claims-to-the-negev-are-outrageous/



The original Negev was inhabited with seven recorded culture groups from the Mediterranean region. None were sanitary nor interested in the natural laws of life and sustainable family, agriculture, and hygiene. Non were interested in the standards of natural plant fertility. They replaced natural agriculture laws with underworld, dark spirits that led their societies into extreme droughts, irreversible diseases and unsustainable lifestyles that dishonored their own children by burning them alive and using temple free sex as a means to releasing sex tensions in dysfunctional family life.

The severity of their diseased societies sank so low that Creator simply stepped in to cleanse the Negev of the fetid remains to save the remaining life from total loss. The intense instruction given by Moshe' ("Moses") at Mt. Sinai for reversing horticultural damage and maintaining the capacity of the Negev for Eden-like farming was eventually spurned by the assigned people, Israel. Finally, to keep His word about turning away from natural life laws, Creator ended occupation by the Israelite nation, for a period that allowed the land to lie unused and bereft of vegetation, a promise He made were the people to turn from His natural agriculture laws.

The surrounding peoples, mostly small remnants of former nations, roamed over the desolate, life-denying wilderness over eons, allowing their animals to further destroy near all drought tolerant life.  The Negev boundaries were reduced by wars, confusion and neglect over time. Today it is a fraction of the vast expanse of its former time.

The area is . . .

4700 sq. mi. (12,173 sq. km). Capital : Beersheba




Negev Restoration Blog Page Guide

Read First
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-israel-negev-what-happened.html

Read Second
The Israel Negev - What Happened?
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-israel-negev-what-happened.html

Read Third
What's In the Name "Negev"?
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/whats-in-namel-negev.html


Read Fourth
This Page
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/history-of-negev-proofs-and-evidences.html


Read Fifth
On The Occupiers Of The Present Negev
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/on-occupiers-of-present-negev.html


Read Sixth
The Negev Question - Understanding The Real Garden of Eden Effect
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-negev-question-understanding-real.html


Read Seventh
Negev Farming - Wide Variety of Times & Practice
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/negev-farming-wide-variety-of-times.html


Read Eighth
Knowing Where The Former Negev Was To See Our Goal Now
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/seeing-where-former-negev-was-to-know.html

Knowing Where The Former Negev Was To See Our Goal Now

What was it like to live and reside in the former Negev region?

Let's look at the information we have and attempt to accurately deduce from that history what it may have been.

Let's trust that the webpages referred to here will stay up!

This one shares a recent study into the evidences of former negev agriculture . . .

Holy Land Farming Began 5,000 Years Earlier Than Thought
By Douglas Main | March 19, 2013 10:48am ET

http://www.livescience.com/28011-ancient-agriculture-israel.html

Field Just Outside Avdat in the Northern Negev

The current thinking is that these desert denizens didn't practice agriculture before approximately the first century, surviving instead by raising animals, said Hendrik Bruins, a landscape archaeologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.But new research suggests people in this area, the Negev highlands, practiced agriculture as long ago as 5000 B.C., Bruins told LiveScience. If true, the finding could change historians' views of the area's inhabitants, who lived in the region in biblical times and even before, he added.

Negev Restoration Blog Page Guide

Read First
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-israel-negev-what-happened.html

Read Second
The Israel Negev - What Happened?
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-israel-negev-what-happened.html

Read Third
What's In the Name "Negev"?
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/whats-in-namel-negev.html


Read Fourth
History of the Negev - Proofs and Evidences
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/history-of-negev-proofs-and-evidences.html


Read Fifth
On The Occupiers Of The Present Negev
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/on-occupiers-of-present-negev.html


Read Sixth
The Negev Question - Understanding The Real Garden of Eden Effect
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-negev-question-understanding-real.html


Read Seventh
Negev Farming - Wide Variety of Times & Practice
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/negev-farming-wide-variety-of-times.html


Read Eighth
This Page
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/seeing-where-former-negev-was-to-know.html

Negev Farming - Wide Variety of Times & Practice

More Negev farming sites
(I recommend saving these pages to your computer as they may disappear)


http://www.livescience.com/28011-ancient-agriculture-israel.html

The Route 40 through the Negev passes ancient farming areas. some are revived to limited degree.

http://www.negevjeep.co.il/english/negev-farms.html

https://www.israel21c.org/winemakers-revive-ancient-negev-wine-route/

This site makes the Negev appear more than it is in some ways, and far less than it can be with the original design of the forests and precipitation and conservative harvesting of the abundant crops.

https://www.israel21c.org/topic/negev-desert/

These blind individuals that assume solar energy is best converted to electrical power have no understanding of the 50X greater solar energy conversion factor that plans have.

Instead of sending 5% of Israel's homes electricity, the same land can supply much greater food and lumber and still convert a generous fraction of solar power to feed water to the area.

This series of videos in the Negev give a sense of the large area that needs forests on the tops of the hills again and verdant farms in the valleys as in ancient days.

Postcard from Israel - Sde Boker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66ZWpKMPYZE





Negev Restoration Blog Page Guide

Read First
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-israel-negev-what-happened.html

Read Second
The Israel Negev - What Happened?
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-israel-negev-what-happened.html

Read Third
What's In the Name "Negev"?
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/whats-in-namel-negev.html


Read Fourth
History of the Negev - Proofs and Evidences
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/history-of-negev-proofs-and-evidences.html


Read Fifth
On The Occupiers Of The Present Negev
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/on-occupiers-of-present-negev.html


Read Sixth
The Negev Question - Understanding The Real Garden of Eden Effect
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-negev-question-understanding-real.html


Read Seventh
This Page
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/negev-farming-wide-variety-of-times.html


Read Eighth
Knowing Where The Former Negev Was To See Our Goal Now
https://negevrestoration-ezekiel36factor.blogspot.com/2017/03/seeing-where-former-negev-was-to-know.html