Meaning of the name: honeycomb; anything that distills or drops. Related names are:
Egypt,
Migdol, Pathros
(and others ...)
. The translations of Noph in 17 languages of the Bible are illustrated in the
ichthys
below, from
Nốp in Vietnamese to
Мемфис in Kazakh!
The princes of Zoan are become fools, the princes of Noph are deceived; they have also seduced Egypt, even they that are the stay of the tribes thereof. (ISA 19:13)
Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. (JER 2:16)
The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying, (JER 44:1)
Declare ye in Egypt, and publish in Migdol, and publish in Noph and in Tahpanhes: say ye, Stand fast, and prepare thee; for the sword shall devour round about thee. (JER 46:14)
O thou daughter dwelling in Egypt, furnish thyself to go into captivity: for Noph shall be waste and desolate without an inhabitant. (JER 46:19)
Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause their images to cease out of Noph; and there shall be no more a prince of the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt. (EZE 30:13)
And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily. (EZE 30:16)