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Strong's #5015 - נְבוֹ
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Nebo = “prophet”
1) a Babylonian deity who presided over learning and letters; corresponds to Greek Hermes, Latin Mercury, and Egyptian Thoth (noun proper masculine)
2) a city in Moab and at one time assigned to Reuben; probably located on or near Mount Nebo (noun proper locative)
3) a city in Judah (maybe Benjamin) from which the families of some exiles, who returned from Babylon with Zerubbabel, originally came (noun proper locative)
4) the mountain where Moses died; located east of the Jordan opposite Jericho; site uncertain (noun proper locative)
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2, with (Babylonian) god Nebo, Nabû, compare II. נְבוֺ and Bae Rel. 15. 89,259; yet not certain, Nö ZMG xiii. 1888,470 compare Arabic 
the height, etc.): ᵐ5 Ναβαυ; —
1. a. city in Moab Numbers 32:3,38 (where assigned to Reuben; both J E = נבה MI14) Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:1,22; 1 Chronicles 5:8; probably on or near Mt. Nebo (see below), compare Buhl Geogr. 266f. Tristr Moab 338.
b. city in Judah, ׳בְּנֵי נ Ezra 2:29 = אַחֵר׳אַנְשֵׁי נ Nehemiah 7:34 ( the men of the other N., so distinguished — si אחר vera l., compare Ryle — from
a ? or from anotherנֹב ?), Ezra 10:43; — this נבו in Judah perhaps = נֹב 1 q. v.
2 mountain in Moab, where Moses died Numbers 33:47; Deuteronomy 32:49 (הַרנְֿבוֺ), Deuteronomy 34:1 ( id.; all P), six miles west of Heshbon according to Onomastica (ed. Lag283). Probably = modern Nebâ at northeast corner of Dead Sea, Survey E. Pal. i. 198 ff. GASm Geogr. 562ff. Buhl Geogr. 266f. Tristr Moab 318,338 Merrill East of Jordan, 242ff. — compare מִּסְגָּה.
II. נְבוֺ proper name, of a divinity Nebo (loan-word in Hebrew, compare Phoenician proper name, masculine נבו; = Assyrian Nabû, Schr COT Glossary and Isaiah 46:1 Jastr Rel. Babylonian 124ff. Jen Kosmol. pass. Tiele Ass. u. Babylonian Geach. 532f. Say Rel. Bab 112ff. (compare Palmyrene proper name נבוזבד, ברנבו Vog Palm. No. 73), and this perhaps √ nabû, call, name, see נבא); — Babylonian god כָּרַע בֵּל קֹרֵם נְבוֺ Isaiah 46:1.
נְבוֹ
(1) [Nebo], pr.n. the planet Mercury (Syr. and Zab. ܢܒܘܽ), worshipped as the celestial scribe by the Chaldeans (Isaiah 46:1) and the ancient Arabians; see Comment. on Isa. ii. p. 344, 366. The etymology of the name does not ill accord with the office of Mercury; namely נְבוֹ for נְבוֹא i.q. נָבִיא the interpreter of the Gods, the declarer of their will; from the root נָבָא. As to the worship of Mercury by the Chaldeans and Assyrians, we find it attested by the proper names which have this name at the beginning, as Nebuchadnezzar, Nebushasban (see them a little below), and also those mentioned by classic writers, Nabonedus, Nabonassar, Naburianus, Nabonabus, etc.
(2) of a mountain in the borders of Moab (Deuteronomy 32:49, 34:1 ), and of a town near it (Numbers 32:3, 38 Numbers 32:38; Isaiah 15:2).
(3) of a town in the tribe of Judah (Ezra 2:29, 10:43 ); more fully (to distinguish it from the former) נְבוֹ אַחֵר (Nehemiah 7:33). Both places seem to have been so called from the worship of Mercury. [In Thes. they are derived from נָבָה.]
