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Strong's #5334 - נְצִיב
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Nezib = “garrison” or “pillar”
1) a city in the lowlands of Judah on the border of Philistia
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נְצִיב m. (from the root נָצַב).
(1) placed, set; hence one set over, a prefect, leader, i.q. נִצָּב 1 Kings 4:19.
(2) something placed, or set; hence
(a) a statue, i.q. מַצֵּבָה; Arab. نَصْبُ, نُصْبُ a statue, an idol. Genesis 19:26, נְצִיב מֶלַח “a statue of salt,” i.e. fossil salt, of which fragments, in various forms, are found in the neighbourhood of the Dead Sea (see Legh in Macmichaël’s Journey, p. 205). [But in this passage something peculiar is meant.]
(b) a military station, i.q. מַצָּב, מֻצָּב 1 Samuel 10:5, 13:3, 14 1 Samuel 13:14 a garrison, 2 Samuel 8:6, 14 2 Samuel 8:14.
(3) [Nezib], pr.n. of a town in the tribe of Judah, Joshua 15:45 [now prob. Beit Nŭsîb, ديت دصبب Rob. ii. 344].